Chrysolithe Olivier Durbano 2015 Eau de Parfum
Ginger, cinnamon, black pepper, and cumin open together in a dense, complex spice cluster.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Herbal60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Black Pepper
- Cumin
- Sage
- Rosemary
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readGinger, cinnamon, black pepper, and cumin open together in a dense, complex spice cluster. Cumin adds its distinctive musky, slightly animalic warmth alongside the sharper edges of the ginger and pepper, making the opening feel both bold and intimate.
Sage and rosemary shift the mid-section toward an herbal-aromatic register, cooling the spices slightly and adding a green, camphor-adjacent depth. Jasmine provides a brief floral thread through the heart without becoming prominent.
Vetiver and ambergris anchor the base: the vetiver brings earthy smokiness, and the ambergris contributes a salty, diffuse warmth. The overall composition is an intense spice-aromatic with dry, earthy resolution — complex throughout its evolution and better suited to cooler weather and formal occasions.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
