Les Jeux sont Faits
The opening strikes with a sharp, green petitgrain that quickly gives way to something warmer and more disconcerting.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Woody70
- Balsamic65
- Patchouli60
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Cumin
- Rum
- Sandalwood
- Labdanum
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening strikes with a sharp, green petitgrain that quickly gives way to something warmer and more disconcerting. Cumin arrives not as a whisper but as a statement—earthy, slightly animalic, with an edge that some will find confrontational. The rum adds a boozy sweetness that prevents the spice from turning too austere, though this is far from a gourmand fragrance.
As it settles, sandalwood and labdanum create a resinous base that anchors the composition's wilder impulses. Patchouli lends its characteristic depth, while vanilla softens the edges without sweetening things too much. The overall effect is polarizing: simultaneously refined and raw, composed and unruly.
This is a fragrance for those who appreciate cumin's divisive character in perfumery. It demands a certain confidence to wear—something that evokes late nights in dimly lit rooms rather than bright mornings. The name, "the die is cast," feels apt for a scent that commits fully to its choices and expects you to do the same.
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.
