Blue Gin
Cardamom opens cool and slightly camphoraceous, its lemon-peel edge sharpened by mandarin’s juicy brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Iris80
- Soft Spicy60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Tonka Bean
- Iris
- Tonka Bean
- Cardamom
- Mandarin
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens cool and slightly camphoraceous, its lemon-peel edge sharpened by mandarin’s juicy brightness. The spice softens within minutes as iris butter folds in, adding a dry, carrot-root starchiness that mutes the citrus without erasing it. Tonka bean arrives early, carrying warm coumarin hay and a faint almond undertone that slowly overtakes the iris, turning the scent into a pale, skin-soft haze. On skin the progression is steady: the sparkle of mandarin recedes, cardamom’s green bite lingers as a skeletal structure, while tonka expands into a powdered almond skin-scent with a whisper of tobacco. Projection stays polite, hovering just inside personal space for six hours, ideal for quiet office days or cool spring evenings when you want clean warmth rather than statement.
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.
