Mate Leaves (Folhas de Mate)
Cardamom snaps open with a bright, peppery citrus edge that quickly folds into bergamot's softer zest.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom snaps open with a bright, peppery citrus edge that quickly folds into bergamot's softer zest. Lemon adds a sharp sparkle on top, while lily of the valley brings a clean, rain-kissed floral lift that keeps the composition airy rather than sweet. The heart stays transparent, letting the green-tea nuance of the lemon-cardamom pairing ride a cool, soap-like breeze. Musk in the base is feather-light, turning the scent into freshly laundered cotton within two hours and holding that fresh-linen aura for the rest of the wear. Projection stays within handshake distance; it feels made for humid spring mornings, gym bags or office cubicles where cleanliness matters more than projection.
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.