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The opening is unusual and slightly disorienting — cashmeran's salty-musky woody hum sets a mineral tone immediately, with no traditional citrus or floral overture to ease the transition.
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.
- Salty55
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Cashmeran
- Moss
- Lily
- Ambroxan
- Lily
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is unusual and slightly disorienting — cashmeran's salty-musky woody hum sets a mineral tone immediately, with no traditional citrus or floral overture to ease the transition.
The heart unfolds slowly: lily emerges pale and slightly green-pollen, while moss lends a damp-stone undercurrent that makes the perfume feel cool and earthy, like wet rock under leaf-litter. Patchouli threads through with its characteristic dark-soil warmth. Ambroxan in the base adds a dry, salty-amber spaciousness — the impression is open-air rather than enclosed. Projection is moderate and persistent; the texture stays mineral, vegetal, and faintly aquatic throughout, never sweet.
Overall the character is a damp-earth, salty-mossy meditation — abstract, contemplative, neither floral nor woody in any familiar sense, more landscape than perfume.
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.




