Shalimar Oiseau de Paradis
Cedar and lemon create a dry, resinous citrus opening that quickly folds into vetiver's grassy smoke, while jasmine and rose add a muted floral glow that keeps the heart from turning harsh.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Cedar
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readCedar and lemon create a dry, resinous citrus opening that quickly folds into vetiver's grassy smoke, while jasmine and rose add a muted floral glow that keeps the heart from turning harsh. Patchouli and iris supply an earthy, cool-powder counterweight, letting the incense and opoponax rise without becoming too resinous or sweet. As the base settles, sandalwood's creamy wood softens the sharper cedar, and civet plus leather give a subtle animalic growl that stays close to skin rather than shouting. Vanilla rounds the edges but never dominates, allowing smoky balsam and musk to linger for hours with moderate projection best suited to cool evenings and formal occasions.
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.
