Arete
Cinnamon crackles over a resinous labdanum and cardamom spark, the opening already leathery and slightly boozy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Cinnamon90
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Labdanum
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon crackles over a resinous labdanum and cardamom spark, the opening already leathery and slightly boozy. The leather accord arrives within minutes, fusing the spices into a polished-hide warmth that muffles the citrus lift of bergamot. As the heart settles, sandalwood and guaiac wood feed the ember, while vanilla and styrax pour a dark, smoky-creamy molasses that clings to skin. Ambroxan stretches the base into a hazy amber glow, patchouli adding dry earth and musk keeping everything close to the body. Projection stays chest-radius for six hours, then becomes a private wood-leather skin-scent ideal for cool evenings or layered under a wool coat.
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.
