Arcanum
Plum opens with a bruised-fruit sweetness that immediately folds into rose, creating a dark-jammy top note that feels half candied, half 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.
- Honey90
- Almond50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Rose
- Almond
- Honey
- Tobacco
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readPlum opens with a bruised-fruit sweetness that immediately folds into rose, creating a dark-jammy top note that feels half candied, half medicinal. Honey arrives early, thickening the fruit-rose syrup while almond adds a faint marzipan edge that keeps the heart from collapsing into pure sugar. Tobacco cuts through with a dry, slightly bitter leafiness that steers the composition away from gourmand territory, grounding the sweetness in a leathery, almost hay-like texture. Moss and myrrh emerge in the dry-down, turning the base matte and cool, while benzoin and amber reheat the residue so the final trail is a muted ambery tobacco dusted with powdered sugar. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, then settles to skin; the scent reads autumnal and works best under a sweater.
Scent twins
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