Veni
Cinnamon and cardamom lead with lavender threading cool through the spice, galbanum sharpening the edge so the opening reads bracing rather than warm.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Amber70
- Cinnamon60
- Vanilla60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Lavender
- Cardamom
- Galbanum
- Guaiac Wood
- Saffron
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and cardamom lead with lavender threading cool through the spice, galbanum sharpening the edge so the opening reads bracing rather than warm. The heart narrows: guaiac wood and saffron, dry and slightly leathery, like wood smoke crossed with old paper.
The base goes long and resinous — oakmoss, ambergris, benzoin, vanilla, patchouli, caramel, musk — a wide amber-gourmand bed where the spice from the opening keeps glowing through. It dries dense and slow, the caramel never sugary, the resin never sweet. Built for cold weather and conversations that go past midnight.
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.
