Leather Shot
Cumin and cardamom open with a warm, slightly body-forward charge that immediately signals skin-close spice rather than kitchen spice.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Cardamom
- Leather
- Iris
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readCumin and cardamom open with a warm, slightly body-forward charge that immediately signals skin-close spice rather than kitchen spice. There is something almost animalic in the first minutes before the composition settles.
Leather and iris arrive together in the heart, a pairing that reads as cool and powdery on one side and raw on the other. The tension between them keeps the middle phase from becoming static.
Sandalwood, vetiver, and the two cedars build a dry, woody base that grounds the leather without sweetening it. The overall character is austere and slightly smoky — a structured, unisex composition that rewards close wear rather than broadcasting distance.
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.
