Vert Empire
Cardamom crackles on skin, cool and green-tinged, its mentholated edge sharpening the brief mandarin spark that flashes then folds into petitgrain’s woody-citrus pith.
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.
- Fresh Spicy70
- Soft Spicy60
- Fresh50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Ambrox
- Petitgrain
- Ambroxan
- Sage
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom crackles on skin, cool and green-tinged, its mentholated edge sharpening the brief mandarin spark that flashes then folds into petitgrain’s woody-citrus pith. Ambrox and its cleaner twin Ambroxan ride in next, stretching a sheer mineral amber that flattens the spice into a silvery, slightly salty skin-wash. Clary sage arrives slow, an earthy aromatic that drags a faint tobacco sweetness through the ambrox haze, while benzoin warms the underside with a soft, powdery resin that never turns truly rich. The scent stays linear, a cool herbal-amber continuum that hovers close to the body for hours, projecting no farther than a handshake distance. Office-safe in any season except deep winter, it reads like crisp white linen washed with sage soap and line-dried in ocean air.
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.
