Santal Kardamon
Pink pepper and bergamot open with a spiced citrus brightness — pepper adding dry warmth, bergamot providing lift.
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.
- Woody60
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Orange Blossom
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and bergamot open with a spiced citrus brightness — pepper adding dry warmth, bergamot providing lift. Neroli and orange blossom form a sunlit white floral heart, their shared citrus-floral duality amplified by cardamom's sweet aromatic spice; the heart reads warm and gently powdery before the composition descends.
The base carries the most weight: amberwood, sandalwood, leather, birch, cashmeran, and patchouli layered into a dense woody-oriental structure. Amberwood and cashmeran provide modern synthetic warmth; leather and birch add resinous character; sandalwood and patchouli round the whole into something substantial and slow-drying. Santal Kardamon wears more thoughtfully than its Lancôme positioning might suggest.
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.
