Terre de Sarment
Terre de Sarment opens with an unlikely marriage of bitter grapefruit and earthy cumin, the neroli providing just enough floral relief to keep things from turning too savory.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Citrus65
- Smoky65
- Tobacco55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Cumin
- Grapefruit
- Cinnamon
- Frankincense
- Orange Blossom
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readTerre de Sarment opens with an unlikely marriage of bitter grapefruit and earthy cumin, the neroli providing just enough floral relief to keep things from turning too savory. The effect is warm and slightly dusty, like walking into a spice merchant's storeroom with citrus peels drying in the corner. As it settles, the cumin fades and a resinous heart emerges—frankincense and myrrh anchored by subtle cinnamon and nutmeg, with orange blossom adding a whisper of sweetness.
The drydown reveals Frapin's cognac house heritage without literal booze notes. Instead, the tobacco and vanilla suggest oak barrels and aged spirits through association, while benzoin and incense keep the composition grounded in something contemplative rather than gourmand. This wears close to the skin, better suited to cool weather and quiet evenings than making grand entrances.
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.
