Sensual Instinct
Saffron, cardamom, and bergamot set the opening — spiced, warm, slightly citrus — before rose and praline establish the heart's sweet-floral core.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Chocolate70
- Amber60
- Rose50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Rose
- Praline
- Oakmoss
- Amber
- Cedar
- Oakmoss
- Cocoa
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron, cardamom, and bergamot set the opening — spiced, warm, slightly citrus — before rose and praline establish the heart's sweet-floral core. Cocoa and coffee from the general accord map give a dark gourmand depth that prevents the praline from reading purely candied. Oakmoss, amber, and cedar in the base anchor everything in a dry, slightly earthy structure. Sensual Instinct is a gourmand-oriental in the Middle Eastern tradition — dense, sweet, and rich, with enough complexity in the spice and oakmoss to keep it from collapsing into single-note sweetness.
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.
