Sikkim Parfum
A 1971 floral chypre that reads as Lancôme operating at full ambition — green, leathery, narcotic by turns.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Leather70
- Patchouli55
- Rose50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Narcissus
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readA 1971 floral chypre that reads as Lancôme operating at full ambition — green, leathery, narcotic by turns. Gardenia, galbanum and bergamot open with the kind of bracing green bite that defined seventies femmes; galbanum is loud at first.
The heart is a complex floral: jasmine, iris, narcissus, rose — all classical, all expensive, none dominating. The narcissus is the unusual move, giving the composition a hay-and-leather underside before the base even arrives.
The base does the heavy work: oakmoss, leather, patchouli, vetiver, amber, with coconut as the strange softener — a creamy nut-milk warmth under all the chypre depth. A cold-weather statement, pre-IFRA in build, smelling of velvet curtains and old money.
Scent twins
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