Fleuve Tendre
A dense spice cloud opens — black pepper sharp and dry, cumin warm and slightly skin-like, saffron metallic, cardamom husky, nutmeg dusky.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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
- Smoky70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cumin
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA dense spice cloud opens — black pepper sharp and dry, cumin warm and slightly skin-like, saffron metallic, cardamom husky, nutmeg dusky. The effect is heady, almost overwhelming for a moment before the notes settle into a balanced spiced wash.
The heart is essentially a musky transition into the base, where the composition declares its intent: incense and frankincense smolder dry and resinous, civet adds a quiet animalic hum, vetiver pulls in earth, suede smooths everything into a rubbed-leather softness, tonka rounds the close with a sweet balsamic glow. Patchouli weaves through it all, dark and earthy. Projection is generous, the texture rich and warm; the arc feels slow and ceremonial, with the spice-incense-leather braid persisting for hours.
Overall a smoky animalic-leather oriental with heavy spice top.
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.
