Cassandra Blanc
Cassandra Blanc opens directly on a dry, earthy patchouli — no citrus buffer, no bright top notes to ease the entry.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCassandra Blanc opens directly on a dry, earthy patchouli — no citrus buffer, no bright top notes to ease the entry. The wood base arrives quickly, with Virginia cedar lending a pencil-shaving dryness that keeps the patchouli from turning too dark or sweet.
As it settles, sandalwood rounds out the cedar's edges, adding a faint creamy warmth beneath the earthiness. Musk threads through the whole composition, pulling it closer to skin rather than letting it broadcast outward.
The result is a stripped-back, woody-earthy construction — patchouli-forward but lighter than most of its counterparts, the "Blanc" designation suggesting a cleaner, pared-down read on familiar dark materials.
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.
