Shaman
Mandarin opens with a sunny citrus warmth, quickly threaded with cardamom's green-spicy lift.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Ambergris
- Cardamom
- Mandarin
- Nutmeg
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readMandarin opens with a sunny citrus warmth, quickly threaded with cardamom's green-spicy lift. The combination feels both bright and grounded — citrus carrying the visibility, cardamom adding the texture.
Nutmeg deepens the spice register into something rounder and more brown-warm, and rose enters as a soft floral counterweight rather than a focal point. The middle of the composition feels balanced between spice and petal, with neither side pushing too hard.
Ambergris anchors the drydown with a salty, skin-warm musk that gives the whole composition a sense of body without weight. The overall character is a soft spicy-floral with a quiet animalic undertow — restrained, refined, and clearly built around warmth rather than projection or freshness.
Scent twins
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