Chypre Caramel
Cumin and cardamom crack open with a sweaty-green flash, galbanum sharpening the edges while bergamot lifts the spice into a fizzy, almost pickled brightness.
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.
- Amber60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Cardamom
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readCumin and cardamom crack open with a sweaty-green flash, galbanum sharpening the edges while bergamot lifts the spice into a fizzy, almost pickled brightness. The heart folds in heliotrope’s marzipan airiness, jasmine’s indolic cream and rose’s tart petals, creating a floral-caramel layer that still carries the pungent top. As the base settles, labdanum and patchouli darken the caramel into a salty, mossy toffee that clings to sandalwood’s milky core; civet adds a low growl, leather a dry rustle, oakmoss a cool forest floor. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, then collapses to a skin-butterscotch guarded by earthy patchouli. Cool autumn nights, smart-casual dinners, leather jacket weather.
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.
