The Cobra and The Canary
The Cobra and The Canary opens with a jolt of leather and lemon that feels almost confrontational—worn saddle meets citrus rind in a way that suggests both elegance and danger.
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.
- Leather65
- Soft Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readThe Cobra and The Canary opens with a jolt of leather and lemon that feels almost confrontational—worn saddle meets citrus rind in a way that suggests both elegance and danger. There's a medicinal sharpness underneath, reminiscent of old apothecary jars, that keeps the composition from settling into anything too comfortable or expected.
As it develops, the leather softens just enough to reveal tobacco leaf and a whisper of hay-like sweetness, though it never turns warm or inviting in the conventional sense. The overall effect remains taut and slightly unsettling, like stepping into a parlor where the furniture is covered in dustcloth and the windows haven't been opened in years.
This is a scent for those who appreciate perfume as atmosphere rather than adornment. It wears close and cerebral, better suited to solitary moments than crowded rooms, and it tends to polarize—some find it captivatingly strange, others simply strange.
Scent twins
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