Emblem Intense
Grapefruit, cardamom, and clary sage open with a crisp aromatic brightness — the grapefruit providing citrus freshness, cardamom adding warm spice, and clary sage's herbal-nutty quality bridging them into a coherent aromatic opening that feels modern without being generic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Clary Sage
- Apple
- Cinnamon
- Violet Leaf
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit, cardamom, and clary sage open with a crisp aromatic brightness — the grapefruit providing citrus freshness, cardamom adding warm spice, and clary sage's herbal-nutty quality bridging them into a coherent aromatic opening that feels modern without being generic.
Apple, cinnamon, violet leaf, nutmeg, and rose form the heart — an unusual combination that straddles fruity, spiced, and floral registers simultaneously. The cinnamon and nutmeg provide warmth; apple adds fruity sweetness; violet leaf contributes a cool, slightly green note; rose grounds the heart in classic florality.
Tonka bean, patchouli, and suede anchor the base with dry, leathery warmth. The suede is smooth rather than aggressive; patchouli adds earthiness; tonka provides sweet, almondy softness. A versatile masculine-leaning aromatic with genuine presence and range.
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.
