Cacao²
Cinnamon crackles first, dry and hot, scattering sweet sparks across the opening.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Amber70
- Warm Spicy60
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Labdanum
- Vetiver
- Benzoin
- Amber
- Cocoa
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon crackles first, dry and hot, scattering sweet sparks across the opening. Labdanum slides in next, folding its leathery amber into the spice, creating a smoky, resinous heart that feels like burnt sugar dissolving into molten resin. The base piles on: cocoa powder adds dusty-dark chocolate bitterness, vanilla doubles the sweetness, benzoin thickens everything with syrupy vanilla, while vetiver and cedar keep the structure vertical and taut so the gourmand mass doesn’t collapse. Over hours the cinnamon embers cool, letting the cocoa-vanilla-amber accord settle into a close, skin-warmed chocolate skin scent that still carries a faint vetiver stalk. Projection stays intimate; best for cool evenings or layered knitwear. Sillage is moderate but longevity stretches well past midnight.
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.
