Valparaiso
Cardamom crackles open with a green-citrus snap that immediately frames the incense heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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
- Soft Spicy70
- Balsamic60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Myrrh
- Frankincense
- Patchouli
- Vetiver
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom crackles open with a green-citrus snap that immediately frames the incense heart. Myrrh and frankcense fold in, resinous but dry rather than sticky, their church-smoke cooled by petitgrain’s leafy edge while patchouli adds a earthy, slightly camphoric weight that keeps the accord from turning sweet. As the heart settles, vetiver and Virginia cedar strip away any creaminess, leaving a matte, woody-smoke haze that clings close to skin. Projection stays reserved, a skin-level incense veil rather than a room-filler, making it wearable in warm weather where heavier resinous scents collapse. The dry-down is linear cedar-vetiver with a faint cardamom echo, clean, dry, quietly contemplative. Suitable for office or travel in spring through fall when you want incense without the baggage.
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.