Santal Kardamon Lancôme
Pink pepper and bergamot open with a spiced citrus brightness — pepper adding dry warmth, bergamot providing lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Sandalwood60
- Amber60
- Bergamot50
- Cardamom50
- Orange45
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.
