Karma
Karma opens with a peculiar brightness—lavender and citrus flicker over something heavier waiting underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Patchouli95
- Incense70
- Cinnamon65
- Lavender50
- Orange40
By the editors · 2 min readKarma opens with a peculiar brightness—lavender and citrus flicker over something heavier waiting underneath. The effect is less herbaceous spa than incense-prep room, the kind of place where orange oil cuts through sandalwood dust. That initial sharpness doesn't linger long.
What emerges is patchouli in its full hippie-shop glory, earthen and unapologetic, wrapped in a cinnamon heat that reads more resinous than gourmand. This isn't polite patchouli tucked into a modern composition; it's front and center, slightly sweet, wholly committed to its own dense character.
The result feels like a time capsule from mid-90s counterculture—headshop incense, well-worn cotton, a certain earnestness about natural materials. It wears close and warm, better suited to someone comfortable smelling like they mean it than anyone chasing contemporary tastes.
