Arsenic Osman
Arsenic Osman opens with cinnamon dusted over plum — fruit-skin sweetness held in check by spice rather than turned into a dessert.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Leather80
- Vanilla70
- Soft Spicy50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Plum
- Violet
- Leather
- Madagascar Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readArsenic Osman opens with cinnamon dusted over plum — fruit-skin sweetness held in check by spice rather than turned into a dessert. Violet at the heart adds a powdered, almost metallic edge that keeps the composition from settling into comfort.
The drydown is where the perfume earns its character: a smoky black leather laced with Madagascar vanilla. The vanilla here is not patisserie — it's a slow, dark resin that pools beneath the leather and gives the whole thing a sinister opulence.
A cold-weather scent with theatre in it. Long evenings, plush rooms, an outfit you've thought about.
Scent twins
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