Malefic Tattoo
Cinnamon and saffron hit immediately and hard — warm, resinous, and slightly medicinal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Smoky80
- Cinnamon70
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Incense
- Labdanum
- Saffron
- Amber
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and saffron hit immediately and hard — warm, resinous, and slightly medicinal. Incense and labdanum compound this into a dense, sweet-smoky opening that feels heavy from the first moments. There is little gentleness here; the composition announces itself with conviction.
The heart's amber deepens rather than softens, pulling styrax into a balsamic core that feels almost tar-like in its richness. Patchouli and musk in the base add an earthy, slightly animalic foundation. Sandalwood is present but barely audible beneath the resin and smoke. Dark, opaque, and persistent — this is a cold-weather fragrance that leaves a strong trail and takes hours to fully settle.
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.
