Paradox
Melon and cardamom open together — the fruit softens the spice, creating something both cooling and warm at once.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Floral80
- Caramel70
- Fresh50
- Marine
The note pyramid
- Melon
- Cardamom
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Cedar
- Galbanum
By the editors · 2 min readMelon and cardamom open together — the fruit softens the spice, creating something both cooling and warm at once. There's a slight green edge from galbanum that keeps the opening from reading purely sweet.
The heart is a full floral cluster: jasmine, ylang-ylang, rose, and lily of the valley layered over cedar. The galbanum thread continues here, lending a slight sharpness that prevents the florals from becoming heavy or cloying.
Sandalwood, patchouli, and caramel settle underneath, pulling the composition toward a warm, creamy finish. The caramel reads as texture rather than dessert sweetness — grounding the florals without overwhelming them. Musk keeps the skin feel present throughout.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
