Malbec Sport
Lime, cardamom, and nutmeg open with a spiced-citrus accord that reads fresh without going aquatic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Lavender60
- Aromatic50
- Sweet50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Sage
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readLime, cardamom, and nutmeg open with a spiced-citrus accord that reads fresh without going aquatic. Sage and lavender form a spare but effective heart — they hold the structure from the opening and prevent the base from landing too abruptly. The base is dense: sandalwood, leather, vetiver, patchouli, and tonka layered over amber and musk with cedar for dryness.
The "Sport" label is somewhat misleading — this is a fougère with serious drydown complexity. The lavender-herb top reads athletic, but the richly layered base belongs to an evening context as much as an outdoor one. Better in cool or moderate weather, where the complexity can unfold properly.
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.
