Vintage Collection Garofano
Garofano opens with a brief lavender prelude before the real star arrives: carnation rendered not as a single-note portrait but as a baroque arrangement.
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.
- Cinnamon90
- Floral60
- Smoky60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Cinnamon
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readGarofano opens with a brief lavender prelude before the real star arrives: carnation rendered not as a single-note portrait but as a baroque arrangement. Cinnamon charges in first, hot and barely sweetened, followed by jasmine and ylang-ylang that add roundness without softening the spice. The effect is less flower-shop bouquet than incense-warmed petals crushed in a wooden box.
As it settles, vanilla and heliotrope emerge to powder the edges, but the clove-like heat of carnation persists. Cedar adds a dry skeleton beneath the plushness, keeping it from collapsing into dessert territory. The musk is clean but barely registering—this is a fragrance that wants you to notice the florals, not the framework.
It recalls a time when carnation was a serious player in perfumery, not a novelty. Rich, old-fashioned in the best sense, and bold enough to dominate a room without sweetness as a crutch.
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