Cacao Bianco d'Arabia
Cacao Bianco d'Arabia has no top notes — the composition opens directly with incense, vanilla, and heliotrope.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Smoky60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Vanilla
- Heliotrope
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readCacao Bianco d'Arabia has no top notes — the composition opens directly with incense, vanilla, and heliotrope. Incense provides a cool-smoky, resinous quality; vanilla sweetens immediately; heliotrope adds an almond-cherry-powder dimension.
The three heart notes create an unusual sweet-smoky accord — the incense smoke cut through by vanilla sweetness and heliotrope's floury powder. There's a tension here that makes the opening more interesting than its simple note count suggests.
Amber in the base deepens and extends the resinous-sweet character. The composition is relatively linear after the first phase — sweet smoke with almond-inflected powder, trailing into amber warmth. A niche incense-oriental for those comfortable with sweet-smoky combinations.
Scent twins
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