Mon Numero 10
The opening carries a spiced warmth that refuses to shout—cinnamon and cardamom tempered by fennel's anise-green coolness and pink pepper's soft heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Leather50
- Incense45
- Cinnamon45
- Tonka40
- Cardamom35
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening carries a spiced warmth that refuses to shout—cinnamon and cardamom tempered by fennel's anise-green coolness and pink pepper's soft heat. Bergamot keeps the whole introduction from veering too darkly oriental, maintaining an airy clarity even as the spices settle into something deeper.
As it develops, incense threads through suede-soft leather, neither overly smoky nor animalic. Jasmine and rose appear not as florists' blooms but as dusky, resinous traces woven into the spice and smoke. The base is where Mon Numéro 10 finds its true character: tonka, vanilla, and heliotrope create a powdery, almost confectionery sweetness that plays against benzoin and styrax's balsamic weight. The leather persists throughout, quiet but persistent.
This is a scent for cold evenings and solitary hours, intimate rather than projecting. It reads less as classic French parfumerie and more as an incense-warmed study lined with old books and soft textiles.
