Liquid Karl
Cardamom snaps open with a cool, green-tinged spice that feels almost mentholated against skin.
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.
- Soft Spicy60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Cocoa
- Oakmoss
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom snaps open with a cool, green-tinged spice that feels almost mentholated against skin. Cocoa folds in quickly, not dessert-like but a dry, bitter cocoa powder that mutes the spice and adds a dusty, earthy weight. Cedar follows, crisp and pencil-shaving dry, while oakmoss provides a faintly salty, forest-floor dampness that keeps the cocoa from turning gourmand. Over hours the cardamom recedes, letting the cocoa-oakmoss duo dominate, a dusty chocolate-wood accord that stays close to skin. Projection is office-polite, lingering as a clean, woody skin-scent through the workday. Best suited to cool autumn days and casual settings where subtlety is valued.
Scent twins
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