Arcanum
Cinnamon snaps open with dry wood-spice heat, immediately softened by creamy coconut milk that muffles the frankincense’s sharp citrus edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Coconut
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Labdanum
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon snaps open with dry wood-spice heat, immediately softened by creamy coconut milk that muffles the frankincense’s sharp citrus edge. The heart folds labdanum’s leathery amber into osmanthus’s apricot suede, creating a fuzzy, lactonic amber that feels like sun-warmed skin. As the base settles, tonka bean’s almond coumar sweetness swells, merging with vanilla to form a velvety custard while amberwood injects a clean, musky woodsmoke that keeps the gourmand cloud from turning cloying. Projection hovers at arm’s length for six hours, then collapses into a toasted-coconut skin aura perfect for cool autumn evenings or layered under a wool coat.
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.
