Istanbul
Cardamom and bergamot open with a soft spiced-citrus pairing, the cardamom warming the bergamot without overpowering its brightness.
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.
- Lavender55
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Opoponax
- Patchouli
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom and bergamot open with a soft spiced-citrus pairing, the cardamom warming the bergamot without overpowering its brightness. The opening reads polished and immediately oriental in intent.
Lavender, opoponax, and patchouli build the heart into a complex middle — the lavender herbal, the opoponax sweetly resinous, the patchouli adding cocoa-earth depth. The transition is the composition's most layered phase, balancing aromatic lift with balsamic warmth. Myrrh in the broader frame adds a quiet cool resin underneath.
Tonka bean, sandalwood, amber, vanilla, and musk close the arc with a thick warm-amber base. The dry-down reads as a soft incense-amber-vanilla blanket, projecting moderately for hours and settling into a long sweet-balsamic close. Recognisable template, well-balanced.
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.
