Garofano
Garofano opens with lavender that reads dry and herbal rather than sweet, threaded immediately with cinnamon's warm bite.
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.
- Lavender70
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Cinnamon
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readGarofano opens with lavender that reads dry and herbal rather than sweet, threaded immediately with cinnamon's warm bite. The name references carnation, and that spiced-floral quality is delivered through the cinnamon-jasmine-ylang ylang heart rather than any literal carnation note — peppery warmth with a tropical, waxy edge.
As it settles, rose and ylang soften the spice while heliotrope pulls everything toward a powdery, almond-like register. Vanilla and cedar anchor the base without becoming dessert-heavy, and musk keeps the skin feel present but not clinging.
The result sits between aromatic fougère and spiced floral — neither purely feminine nor masculine, more apothecary than perfume counter. Best in cooler weather when the cinnamon-lavender tension has room to breathe.
Scent twins
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