Ambre de Cabochard
Ginger and cinnamon lead the opening with hot, spiced directness — cardamom adds a more aromatic dimension, and black currant introduces a tart fruitiness that moderates the heat without cooling it entirely.
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.
- Amber85
- Cinnamon75
- Vanilla65
- Tuberose
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Black Currant
- Cardamom
- Tuberose
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and cinnamon lead the opening with hot, spiced directness — cardamom adds a more aromatic dimension, and black currant introduces a tart fruitiness that moderates the heat without cooling it entirely. The contrast is well-calibrated. The heart is a brief, cool interlude: tuberose and lily of the valley, white-floral and faintly powdery, providing pause before the base takes hold. And hold it does — tonka bean and amber build a rich, sweet-warm oriental base, patchouli providing earthy structure and musk extending the trail. This is the Cabochard house character at its most direct: warm, assured, and unapologetically rich in the way that belongs to a particular school of French oriental perfumery.
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.
