Carmen
Cardamom and bergamot create an aromatic and citrus-spiced opening that is both invigorating and slightly earthy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Floral60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Pear
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom and bergamot create an aromatic and citrus-spiced opening that is both invigorating and slightly earthy. Pear introduces a juicy, translucent fruitiness that lightens the spicy top notes, while jasmine, ylang-ylang, and rose form a dense, narcotic floral heart. This complex bouquet gradually deepens as oakmoss, cinnamon, and labdanum emerge, adding mossy greenness, warm spice, and resinous amber. The dry-down is richly ambery and slightly animalic from castoreum and musk, with tobacco and birch providing a dry, smoky undertone. Sillage is strong and diffusive for the first three hours before retreating closer to the skin. Longevity extends well beyond twelve hours, making it suited for fall and winter evenings or formal events.
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.
