Soul Batik
Bergamot and cardamom open cleanly, the citrus cutting through the spice with some precision.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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 Spicy60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Pink Pepper
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and cardamom open cleanly, the citrus cutting through the spice with some precision. Pink pepper adds a dry, fizzing quality that keeps the opening energetic rather than heavy.
Incense and frankincense move in during the heart, shifting the mood toward something resinous and contemplative. The smoke is restrained rather than cathedral-dense — it blends with the cardamom remnants to create a warm, slightly medicinal middle phase.
Amber, vanilla, and patchouli form a rounded, balsamic base. The vanilla reads as depth rather than sweetness, and patchouli adds enough earthiness to prevent the dry-down from feeling soft or sugary. The overall arc moves from fresh spice to warm resin with consistent coherence.
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.
