Kemi
Kemi opens on cedar — clean and slightly dry — before the composition shifts decisively into something more provocative.
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.
- Animalic90
- Caramel80
- Vanilla60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Laotian Oud
- Cedar
- Civet
- Castoreum
- Caramel
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readKemi opens on cedar — clean and slightly dry — before the composition shifts decisively into something more provocative. Civet and castoreum emerge in the heart, raw and animalic, softened only partially by a thread of caramel that runs sweetly alongside them.
Sandalwood and vanilla in the base pull the animalic elements toward something warmer and more wearable, though they never fully tame them. The caramel reads almost like butterscotch against the civet rather than a dessert note on its own.
The result is a skin-forward scent that sits close but leaves a detectable trail. It rewards proximity, occupying a narrow space between comfort and provocation, warm and distinctly animal.
Scent twins
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