Poltergeist
Cinnamon opens hot and dry, crackling against a snap of cedar shavings that keeps the spice from turning sugary.
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.
- Cinnamon90
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Frankincense
- Cedar
- Galbanum
- Clary Sage
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon opens hot and dry, crackling against a snap of cedar shavings that keeps the spice from turning sugary. Frankincense swirls in almost immediately, its lemon-peel facet lifting the bark and adding a cool, resinous haze that softens the cinnamon’s bite. Galbanum and clary sage arrive together, the green resin adding a bitter snap while the herb’s musky hay nuance stretches the incense into something more pastoral. The base is a slow sandalwood ember: vetiver keeps the smoke earthy, benzoin and vanilla lend a quiet balsam glow, and patchouli gives a cocoa-dark underside that anchors the earlier spices for hours. Projection stays within arm’s length; the accord works best in cool weather, evening 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.
