Rival
Cinnamon and lemon spark immediately, the citrus edge slicing through the spice's dry heat while roasted coffee adds a bitter, almost nutty undercurrent that keeps the opening from turning syrupy.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Lemon
- Coffee
- Violet Leaf
- Star Anise
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and lemon spark immediately, the citrus edge slicing through the spice's dry heat while roasted coffee adds a bitter, almost nutty undercurrent that keeps the opening from turning syrupy. Star anise folds into violet leaf at center stage, its licorice snap lifting the green leaf's cool metallic facet and letting the earlier coffee re-emerge as a darker, espresso-ground accent. Amber spreads in the base, warming patchouli's earthy crumble so that the coffee loses its bitterness and softens into a caramelized roasted bean skin-warm scent. Projection stays within arm's length for most of the wearing, making it an easy cold-weather office reach that still offers enough gourmand intrigue for after-dark. The composition is linear enough to feel consistent yet the coffee note's gradual sweetening gives a slow, satisfying evolution over five to six hours.
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.
