Madeleine
Cumin opens immediately — sweaty, warm, almost skin-like — and the first minutes are confrontational in that specifically human way cumin can be.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Tuberose90
- White Floral70
- Animalic60
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Tuberose
- Tonka Bean
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCumin opens immediately — sweaty, warm, almost skin-like — and the first minutes are confrontational in that specifically human way cumin can be. It isn't masked; it's the point.
The heart blooms tuberose: creamy, lush, slightly carnal, leaning into the cumin rather than fighting it. The combination reads like warm flesh under fabric, more animal than floral despite the white-petal volume. Tonka in the base smooths things with a vanillic-almond softness, and musk closes the distance into something close and skin-bound.
Overall character: an intentionally indolic, body-warm white floral — short ingredient list, big tactile presence. Sillage is intimate but persistent, the cumin-tuberose accord drifting in and out for hours.
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.
