Perseus
Cumin opens with a distinctive savory edge alongside bergamot's citrus lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Lavender60
- Almond50
- White Floral50
- Nutty
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Heliotrope
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Almond
By the editors · 2 min readCumin opens with a distinctive savory edge alongside bergamot's citrus lift. Heliotrope introduces a powdery, almond-like sweetness almost immediately, softening the spice before it can dominate.
Lavender and jasmine develop in the heart, bringing a clean floral note that blends smoothly with the almond character carried forward from the heliotrope. The effect is sweet without being dessert-like — more cosmetic than edible.
Sandalwood, amber, and vanilla settle into a warm, smooth base that reinforces the powdery-sweet direction. The overall arc runs from savory-spiced to soft and almond-dusted, landing somewhere between floral and oriental. Wearable and approachable.
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.
