Nikos
Lemon and cardamom launch with a bright, peppery snap that quickly warms on skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Jasmine
- Musk
- Coffee
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and cardamom launch with a bright, peppery snap that quickly warms on skin. Jasmine arrives next, its indolic lift softening the citrus edge while coffee adds a roasted, slightly bitter grain that keeps the heart from turning floral-sweet. Tonka bean and vanilla smooth the transition, knitting the coffee to a creamy, vanillic base that still carries the lemon's echo. Sandalwood and cedar dry the blend, adding clean wood shavings, while oakmoss contributes a quiet mossy hum that drifts just beneath the sweetness. Projection stays within arm's length for six hours, making it office-safe yet interesting enough for after-work drinks; the coffee accord reads cooler and more aromatic than gourmand, so spring through early fall wear feels natural.
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.
