Whip (2014)
Cardamom snaps open with a cool, green bite as galbanum sharpens the edges and bergamot adds a brief citrus flash.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Tarragon
- Lavender
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom snaps open with a cool, green bite as galbanum sharpens the edges and bergamot adds a brief citrus flash. The heart swaps brightness for tarragon’s anise-tinged verdure laid over lavender’s clean, slightly bitter stalk, creating a crisp herbal layer that mutes the top’s green crackle. Oakmoss soon dominates, dusting the composition in dry, slate-grey earth while vetiver smokes quietly and patchouli gives a muted cocoa roughness; leather arrives as a waxed-rubboned accent rather than a saddle. During the dry-down the moss-patchouli accord dominates, projecting two feet of cool, barbershop sillage for six hours. Office-casual in spring and fall, it behaves like a modernized chypre aftershave that never warms up.
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.
