Nouveau Monde
Nouveau Monde opens with a dry, almost austere cocoa note—powdery and unsweetened, like dark chocolate shavings dusted over raw wood.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Chocolate70
- Earthy70
- Tobacco55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cocoa
- Saffron
By the editors · 2 min readNouveau Monde opens with a dry, almost austere cocoa note—powdery and unsweetened, like dark chocolate shavings dusted over raw wood. There's a faint medicinal edge from oud that never dominates, instead lending structure to what feels like an abstract landscape. As it settles, a smoky vetiver emerges, earthy and slightly charred, with hints of saffron adding warmth without sweetness.
The overall impression is spare and contemplative, more sketch than portrait. It evokes vast spaces—volcanic rock, distant mountains, the stillness before rain. This isn't the cocoa of dessert counters but something stripped back and unexpectedly restrained. Best suited to those who appreciate fragrance as atmosphere rather than adornment, and who find comfort in minimalism rather than abundance.
Scent twins
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