Mandala Henry Jacques Extrait de Parfum
Mandala opens with a precise pairing: lavender's cool, herbal sweetness and clove's sharp, almost medicinal warmth.
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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.
- Warm Spicy70
- Aromatic60
- Balsamic60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Clove
- Leather
- Oud
- Opoponax
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readMandala opens with a precise pairing: lavender's cool, herbal sweetness and clove's sharp, almost medicinal warmth. The two notes pull in different directions — lavender toward the fresh and airy, clove toward the dense and spicy — creating a tension that defines the opening.
Sandalwood and labdanum form the base, with sandalwood offering a smooth, slightly milky woodiness and labdanum contributing its characteristic resinous, animalic-amber quality. Together they anchor the warm-spicy dimension of the opening and deepen it.
The result is a restrained warm-spicy aromatic with balsamic depth — minimal in composition, potentially rich in delivery given the high-concentration extrait format. The labdanum-clove-lavender axis is a classic structure that rewards patience as the base emerges.
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.
