Carpé Café
Vanilla opens first, but it’s immediately folded into labdanum’s resinous amber glow, so the sweetness reads as burnished rather than dessert-like.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Vanilla
- Sandalwood
- Myrrh
- Labdanum
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readVanilla opens first, but it’s immediately folded into labdanum’s resinous amber glow, so the sweetness reads as burnished rather than dessert-like. Sandalwood arrives early, its creamy wood softening the resin edges while myrrh adds a quiet incense smokiness that keeps the accord from turning syrupy. The heart is essentially this trio—vanilla, labdanum, sandalwood—held in suspension, growing drier and more tobacco-hued as minutes pass. By the dry-down the vanilla has receded to a suede-like skin, leaving a leathery amber ember that hugs close but lasts. Projection stays polite, a scented-lapel radius rather than room-filling; it’s built for cool days and unhurried café afternoons.
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.
