Shem
Cardamom opens warm and slightly resinous, more pod-and-soap than candied, setting an aromatic-spicy tone that telegraphs the leather direction underneath.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Cypriol
- Amber
- Osmanthus
- Leather
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens warm and slightly resinous, more pod-and-soap than candied, setting an aromatic-spicy tone that telegraphs the leather direction underneath.
Cypriol pulls into the heart with its dry, smoky, root-and-leather character, joined by amber's balsamic warmth and osmanthus adding a small apricot-leather facet that ties the spice and hide together. The middle reads dark and contemplative, more meditative than performance-loud.
Leather and vetiver handle the close, with vetiver's grassy-earthy smoke deepening the leather's tanned warmth. The drydown is the fragrance's defining stage — a slow-burning leathery amber that sits close on skin with steady but moderate projection. The trail lingers as a smoky-spicy hide for many hours, evening-leaning but wearable in cooler office settings.
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.
