Malbec Absoluto
Black pepper, cardamom, and olibanum open with dry, resinous spice — bergamot and lime add brightness without lifting the composition into fresh territory.
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.
- Warm Spicy70
- Leather70
- Smoky70
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Black Pepper
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Lime
- Cedar
- Lemon
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper, cardamom, and olibanum open with dry, resinous spice — bergamot and lime add brightness without lifting the composition into fresh territory. Violet leaf in the opening adds a faintly green, slightly metallic thread that distinguishes this version. The mid section rests on Virginia cedar alone: austere and dry, letting the spiced opening linger. Leather, benzoin, oakmoss, and amber arrive in the drydown, building the warm, slightly sweet base that anchors the Malbec line's oriental identity.
Malbec Absoluto is cold-weather masculine wear. The oakmoss and leather stack gives it a classically structured drydown with good 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.
