Vanilla & Cedarwood
Cinnamon dominates the opening, dry and bark-like rather than sweet, immediately joined by violet's cool, earthy powder that muffles the spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Cinnamon80
- Soft Spicy70
- Balsamic60
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Lily
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Opoponax
- Violet
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon dominates the opening, dry and bark-like rather than sweet, immediately joined by violet's cool, earthy powder that muffles the spice. Lily arrives next, its clean white petals adding lift yet also a waxy thickness that lets the cinnamon read more woody than edible as it settles. Amber and vanilla merge in the heart, the resin warm and slightly smoky, the vanilla sheer, never custardy, while opoponax supplies a myrrh-like incense curl that keeps the accord from turning gourmand. Castoreum hides in the base, a quiet leather-animalal fuzz that clings to sweaters more than skin, extending the woody-balsamic trail for hours. Projection stays close, a skin-level aura perfect for office days when you want comfort without announcing dessert. The dry-down is soft-spicy cedar impression rather than true wood, cinnamon transformed into a gentle ember that lingers through cool autumn afternoons.
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.
