Black Sea
Cinnamon and saffron charge out first, their dry heat crackling against lily-of-the-valley’s cool green bell.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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
- Warm Spicy70
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Saffron
- Lily of the Valley
- Clove
- Sandalwood
- Frankincense
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and saffron charge out first, their dry heat crackling against lily-of-the-valley’s cool green bell. Within minutes the spice duo warms the flower, turning it papery and slightly dusty while clove adds a blunt, medicinal edge that keeps the heart from turning sweet. Sandalwood arrives early in the base, its creamy grain softening the spices and knitting them to a vanilla-amber resin that smells more like burnt sugar than like bakery warmth. Frankincense weaves through the late dry-down, a quiet cedar-smoke haze that keeps the amber from sagging into gourmand territory. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, then collapses to a skin-hugging ember. The scent reads autumn evening, scarf and leather, cool air that sharpens the smoke.
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.