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Cardamom opens with a crisp, slightly green spice that sets a purposeful, dry tone.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
- Orange
- Leather
- Benzoin
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens with a crisp, slightly green spice that sets a purposeful, dry tone. There is no sweetness crowding the opening — just clean, cool spice against air.
Sandalwood and orange emerge together in the heart, softening the cardamom with a warm, slightly creamy texture while the orange keeps things bright and lifted rather than heavy. The pairing feels balanced rather than lush.
Leather and benzoin settle into the base without turning dark or oppressive. Cedar adds structure, and musk keeps the skin contact light. The result is a restrained, dry-spiced woody leather that sits close to skin and wears well in cooler conditions.
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.
