L'Eau D'Issey Shades Of Kolam 2020
Cardamom crackles against grapefruit, the spice’s peppery heat sharpening the fruit’s pithy bitterness into a cool, salt-edged breeze.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Fresh Spicy70
- Citrus60
- Aromatic50
- Marine
The note pyramid
- Freesia
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- May Rose
- Ambergris
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom crackles against grapefruit, the spice’s peppery heat sharpening the fruit’s pithy bitterness into a cool, salt-edged breeze. Freesia slides in immediately, its watery green petal scent stretching the citrus sparkle into something almost aquatic, while May rose quietly replaces the flowers with a soft, tea-stained centre. Ambergris and cedar anchor the base, the former lending a low-tide mineral sweetness that keeps the rose from turning creamy, the latter adding dry, pencil-shave wood that lets the composition stay sheer rather than plush. Wear time is office-friendly; projection hovers at armimported by the marine neighbour fingerprint but never shouts.
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.
