Code Blue
Nutmeg opens dry and peppery, its brittle spice immediately dusting the skin with a faintly woody warmth.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Leather80
- Woody70
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
- Rose
- Leather
- Oud
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readNutmeg opens dry and peppery, its brittle spice immediately dusting the skin with a faintly woody warmth. Sandalwood and rose fuse in the heart, the wood’s creamy lactones softening the flower’s tart petals while both absorb the nutmeg’s residual heat. As the base settles, leather emerges first as a clean, tannic hide, then oud adds a sour, medicinal edge that the benzoin’s honeyed resin can only partially sweeten. The dry-down keeps the leather-oud pairing angular, yet the earlier sandalwood persists underneath, lending a steady cedar-like cream that prevents the accord from turning harsh. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, making it a cool-weather option for office or casual evening wear. Overall character is dry, woody, and lightly animalic without ever becoming loud.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
