Quinoa
Quinoa skips the conventional opening entirely.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Vanilla95
- Amber95
- Caramel75
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Musk
- Magnolia
By the editors · 2 min readQuinoa skips the conventional opening entirely. From the first spray it announces vanilla, amber, tonka, and sandalwood in a warm enveloping chord that behaves like a drydown from the start. There is no unfolding sequence — it arrives complete.
Magnolia and nutmeg float in the heart as soft accents rather than structural pillars: magnolia adds creamy, lightly floral presence; nutmeg introduces a warm spice note that thickens the vanilla without sharpening it.
The base deepens into caramel and further amber — a gourmand-Oriental finish that wears closer to the skin over time. Quinoa is designed for intimate wear in cold weather, for someone who wants enveloping warmth over projecting presence.
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.