Prolixe
Opens with ginger snapping against cinnamon and cardamom — a kitchen-spice wallop that's drier than gourmand, more carpenter's plane than cookie tin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Oud70
- Smoky70
- Cinnamon60
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Cardamom
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with ginger snapping against cinnamon and cardamom — a kitchen-spice wallop that's drier than gourmand, more carpenter's plane than cookie tin. Frankincense and olibanum hold the heart in a single resinous chord, with rose tucked behind them like a stained-glass color.
The base is where it commits: oud paired with tobacco and patchouli, smoked and earthen and unhurried. It dries down dense without becoming heavy, the spice still legible hours later. A cold-weather composition that wants a wool coat and a long evening.
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.
