Sword Dancer
Cardamom and bergamot open bright and slightly creamy, the spice giving the citrus a warm, almost milky quality.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Labdanum
- Rum
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom and bergamot open bright and slightly creamy, the spice giving the citrus a warm, almost milky quality. The pairing is recognisable but tightly drawn.
Labdanum and rum carry the heart into much darker territory—labdanum lending a sticky, balsamic resin while rum adds a boozy, sweet warmth. The shift from clean top to ambered, slightly intoxicating middle is the most distinctive movement in the arc.
Sandalwood and vetiver finish the composition with a dry, slightly grassy wood that grounds the sweetness. Overall this reads as a spice-amber-rum with a wood backbone—projection moderate, drydown long. Suited to cool evenings, a touch of dressy intent, autumn-into-winter rotation.
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.
