Esprit du Tigre
Mint opens cool and bright, sharper than peppermint candy and closer to crushed leaf, with an almost menthol bite in the first minute.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Clove
- Cardamom
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readMint opens cool and bright, sharper than peppermint candy and closer to crushed leaf, with an almost menthol bite in the first minute. The opening reads more medicinal-aromatic than fragrance-pretty.
Clove and cardamom warm the heart with a dry-spicy contrast — clove adds a clean dental edge, cardamom keeps things lifted and slightly green. The interplay between cooling mint and warming spice is the entire concept, and it sustains rather than develops dramatically.
Cinnamon alone forms the base, lending a powdery, slightly sweet warmth that softens the spice attack and grounds the close. The trajectory is essentially linear: cool to warm, mint into spice, with no substantial woody or amber backdrop. Best worn in cool weather where the mint stays sharp.
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.




