Just Aswad
Cinnamon and cardamom open in tandem, spiced but not harsh, with grapefruit giving them a brief lift before the warmth takes over.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Lavender
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and cardamom open in tandem, spiced but not harsh, with grapefruit giving them a brief lift before the warmth takes over. Nutmeg adds a dusty edge that stops the opening from reading as purely sweet. The spice suite sits on a woody base — sandalwood and vetiver providing different textures, one smooth, one rooty and dry.
Amber and patchouli deepen everything in the dry-down, pulling the composition toward the kind of resinous warmth typical of Middle Eastern-market spice blends. The overall shape is confident and linear — what you smell at the start is largely what remains, just denser.
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.
