Sultane l'Eau Fatale
Sultane l'Eau Fatale opens hot — cinnamon and cumin together, a combination that runs the risk of smelling like a spice market or a sweat-laced skin print depending on how it lands.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Cinnamon95
- Amber65
- Vanilla30
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Cumin
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readSultane l'Eau Fatale opens hot — cinnamon and cumin together, a combination that runs the risk of smelling like a spice market or a sweat-laced skin print depending on how it lands. The cumin in particular gives the first thirty minutes a warm, body-adjacent edge.
The heart settles into ylang-ylang's banana-creamy floral, paired with white jasmine to soften the spice's bite. The base is where the perfume earns its name: benzoin's vanillic resin, sandalwood smoothed and polished, cedar adding a dry-wood spine. The drydown is warm-sweet-resinous, the cumin still detectable but tucked under the woods. A spiced oriental in the older French style, more suited to evening wear than office.
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.
