Siwa
Siwa opens with the sharp, metallic greenness of violet leaf—not floral sweetness but the bruised stem, wet and faintly bitter.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Ozonic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Cinnamon
- Narcissus
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readSiwa opens with the sharp, metallic greenness of violet leaf—not floral sweetness but the bruised stem, wet and faintly bitter. This cool entrance quickly gives way to warmer impulses: cinnamon that never strays into dessert territory, its heat tempered by narcissus, which adds a honeyed, almost indolic depth. The spice feels ancient rather than culinary, like resins in old wooden boxes.
As it settles, vanilla and musk soften the composition without sweetening it excessively. The base is smooth but not cloying, maintaining some of that initial herbal tension even as it warms on the skin. Siwa reads as contemplative rather than exuberant—imagine sunlit stone corridors rather than bustling souks.
This suits someone drawn to ambered orientals but wary of heavy sweetness, or anyone who wants spice rendered in earth tones rather than bright reds. It feels deliberately unhurried, built for slow afternoons and long thoughts.
Scent twins
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