King
Cardamom crackles over bitter espresso, releasing an oily, almost petrol-edged spice that feels more garage than café.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Amber60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Coffee
- Ginger
- Amber
- Ambergris
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom crackles over bitter espresso, releasing an oily, almost petrol-edged spice that feels more garage than café. Within minutes the coffee softens as ginger’s sharp, juicy heat slices through, letting the amber heart bloom into a warm, resinous glow that smells like roasted nuts rolled in brown sugar. Ambergris arrives late, adding a briny, skin-salt radiance that lifts the composition off the skin, while vetiver threads cool, grassy smoke through the lingering peach fuzz sweetness. The overall arc moves from dark roast to salted skin, staying surprisingly airy rather than syrupy. Projection rides at arm’s length for six hours before collapsing into a faint, musky peach skin veil. Cool autumn nights and after-work lounges are its natural territory.
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.
