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Cardamom opens with a cool, peppery snap that lifts the lavender’s clean, hay-like edge into something brisk and slightly medicinal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Balsamic80
- Lavender70
- Aromatic60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Cardamom
- Tonka Bean
- Benzoin
- Ylang-Ylang
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens with a cool, peppery snap that lifts the lavender’s clean, hay-like edge into something brisk and slightly medicinal. Within minutes the heart folds in ylang-ylang’s custardy banana facet, letting tonka and benzoin smear the spices into a soft, toasted-almond paste that feels matte rather than glossy. Patchouli arrives early in the base, its cocoa-dust texture pulling the balsamic resins earthward so the scent never floats into sheer vanilla; instead it lingers as a dry, tobacco-hued amber with a faint lavender buzz stitched through. Projection stays at arm’s length for most of the wearing, making it an easy office companion that still leaves a subtle resinous trail on sweaters into the 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.
