Garuda
Cumin opens with its distinctive warm-skin spice, paired against pink pepper's bright crackle and orange-bergamot citrus brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Pink Pepper
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Rum
- Saffron
By the editors · 2 min readCumin opens with its distinctive warm-skin spice, paired against pink pepper's bright crackle and orange-bergamot citrus brightness. The cumin is unmistakable but kept in check by the citrus.
The heart is rum and saffron — boozy and leathery at once, the rum lending a sweet fermented warmth, the saffron contributing its dry iodine quality. The combination feels sun-warmed and slightly intoxicated, with the spices from the top still humming underneath.
The base layers vetiver, amber, vanilla, cedar, cashmeran, patchouli, and musk into a dense oriental-woody finish. Amber dominates the drydown, with patchouli's earth and vanilla's sweetness wrapped through. Overall the character is a warm oriental with boozy depth, cool-weather and evening-leaning, full-bodied, suited to confident wear.
Scent twins
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