Isfarkand
Isfarkand opens cold and sharp — lime and mandarin laid over bergamot, with a clarity that reads almost mineral.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Woody60
- Mossy60
- Citrus60
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Bergamot
- Mandarin
- Pink Pepper
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readIsfarkand opens cold and sharp — lime and mandarin laid over bergamot, with a clarity that reads almost mineral. The citrus here is not juicy; it is sliced.
A single peppery note in the heart — pink pepper, dry and faintly floral — bridges the citrus to the woods without pretending to be a bouquet. The transition is deliberately spare.
The base is cedar, vetiver and oakmoss, done with the kind of restraint that lets each element keep its outline: dry pencil-shavings cedar, earthy vetiver, a green-bitter moss. Isfarkand is a citrus chypre at its most minimalist — a clean, slightly aristocratic scent with the pace of cold water and the structure of good architecture.
Scent twins
In this family
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