Cabriole
Osmanthus drives the scent with its apricot-skin tannin and faint suede accent, immediately setting a dry yellow-floral tone rather than syrupy sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Yellow Floral70
- Woody60
- Fresh50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Osmanthus
- Sandalwood
- Sandalwood
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readOsmanthus drives the scent with its apricot-skin tannin and faint suede accent, immediately setting a dry yellow-floral tone rather than syrupy sweetness. That leathery facet lands on cool sandalwood that stays airy, never creamy; the wood’s lactonic side is muted, letting the flower’s thin cherry-rum nuance flicker for ten minutes before both fuse into a pale, woody skin veil. Wear it leans intimate, projecting no farther than a forearm’s length for four hours, then settles closer. Spring office days or summer flights when you want quiet polish without announcing fragrance.
Scent twins
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