Malefic Tattoo
Cinnamon and saffron ignite the topos with dry, papery heat, firing the opening into an immediate amber glow that feels almost granular.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Amber80
- Cinnamon70
- Oud70
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Frankincense
- Saffron
- Oud
- Amber
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and saffron ignite the topos with dry, papery heat, firing the opening into an immediate amber glow that feels almost granular. Frankincense follows, exhuming a lemon-peel brightness that lifts the spice rather than sweetening it, keeping the accord angular. In the heart, oud arrives not as barnyard smoke but as lacquered wood soaked in resin; paired with amber, it thickens the syrup while preserving a peppery crackle. That resinous core is gradually partitioned: patchouli offers loamy darkness on the left, styrax and labdanum supply honeyed, leathery balsamic on the right, and sandalwood steers the whole structure toward a creamy, lactonic wood that never fully surrenders its embered spices. Papyrus paper and musk dust the dry-down with a faint saline dryness, extending the fragrance’s tenure as a skin-close, glowing ember rather than a room-filling torch.
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.
