Arabian Nights
Cinnamon crackles against saffron and ylang-ylang, a hot, slightly oily spice that scorches the orange blossom’s sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Oud90
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Ylang-Ylang
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Orange Blossom
- Thyme
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon crackles against saffron and ylang-ylang, a hot, slightly oily spice that scorches the orange blossom’s sweetness. The heart folds smoky incense into vetiver’s rooty dryness, letting sandalwood’s cream soften the rough edges while cedar keeps the structure angular. Oud arrives early, not as barnyard but as a medicinal, camphor-threaded wood that drinks the myrrh and labdanum until the base feels like cooled tar shot through with benzoin’s soft vanilla. Patchouli and musk linger longest, earthy and slightly sweaty, anchoring the amber in skin-close darkness rather than luminous warmth. Projection stays within arm’s length for eight hours; best for cool evenings when wool and leather already carry their own smoky residue.
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.
