Ray-Flection
With only cardamom up top, the opening is a single bright spice — green, cool, slightly mentholated.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Fresh50
- Honey50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Violet Leaf
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readWith only cardamom up top, the opening is a single bright spice — green, cool, slightly mentholated. It feels like a cleared throat rather than a perfume statement, deliberate in its restraint.
Violet leaf at the heart adds watery leafy transparency. The composition reads as one of those minimalist niche pieces where empty space matters as much as the notes — cardamom up, violet leaf in the middle, no floral or fruity crowding in.
Cedar and musk close in a dry, ozonic-leaning woody finish. The overall feel is luminous, almost photographic — a transparent skin scent in the modern minimalist register, gender-neutral, suited to warm weather and uniform-dressing wearers.
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.
