Bluff
Cinnamon dominates the opening, its dry bark heat crackling against lime’s tart snap and bergamot’s metallic edge while nutmeg adds a dusty sweetness that keeps the accord from turning bakery.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Lime
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Iris
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon dominates the opening, its dry bark heat crackling against lime’s tart snap and bergamot’s metallic edge while nutmeg adds a dusty sweetness that keeps the accord from turning bakery. Iris enters next, powdering the spices with cool, carrot-root starch that blunts their bite and lets clary sage’s musky green lift the heart into something airy rather than heavy. As the spices ebb, sandalwood’s creamy lactones merge with patchouli’s cocoa-earth, the cedar lending a quiet pencil-shaving dryness that stops the base from sliding into dessert territory. Skin-wear stays close, projecting a soft woody halo for roughly six hours, ideal for crisp fall offices or a casual dinner where warmth without announcement matters.
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.
