Les Jeux sont Faits
Les Jeux sont Faits opens with little ceremony — cumin arrives immediately, dry and slightly skin-warm, before tobacco settles in alongside it.
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.
- Tobacco95
- Balsamic60
- Smoky60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Tobacco
- Sandalwood
- Labdanum
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readLes Jeux sont Faits opens with little ceremony — cumin arrives immediately, dry and slightly skin-warm, before tobacco settles in alongside it. The pairing is deliberate rather than dramatic, suggesting worn leather and cool evenings rather than any obvious sweetness.
As the base asserts itself, labdanum and sandalwood deepen the composition without softening it much. Patchouli adds a faint earthiness, while vanilla stays restrained, functioning more as a bridge than a destination.
The overall character is smoky and resinous with persistent tobacco at its core. This reads as a cool-weather fragrance built for evening or unhurried indoor settings — spare, a little austere, and better suited to proximity than projection.
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.




