La Fumee Arabie
A smoke-and-spice opening — cumin and cardamom warm and skin-near, labdanum lending a resinous undertone from the start.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Smoky85
- Oud70
- Balsamic60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Labdanum
- Cardamom
- Incense
- Birch
- Frankincense
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readA smoke-and-spice opening — cumin and cardamom warm and skin-near, labdanum lending a resinous undertone from the start. The cumin is the marker: dry, slightly animalic, immediately establishing this as a fragrance about heat.
The heart is dense with smoke: incense, frankincense, and birch tar layered on cedar. It reads as something burned rather than something blooming — a censer in a wood-paneled room. Birch in particular pushes it toward a tarry leather.
Oud, vanilla, and rose finish the composition. The vanilla doesn't sweeten so much as soften the smoke; the rose lifts it; the oud keeps the entire base anchored. A cold-weather, evening fragrance with serious presence.
Scent twins
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