Dark Desire
Cardamom lands first, cool and camphor-green, its citrusy bite sliced by the hot snap of cinnamon that follows within minutes.
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.
- Oud80
- Soft Spicy70
- Woody70
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Cinnamon
- Bulgarian Rose
- Myrrh
- Cumin
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom lands first, cool and camphor-green, its citrusy bite sliced by the hot snap of cinnamon that follows within minutes. Bulgarian rose swells underneath, petals lacquered in myrrh’s medicinal resin while cumin’s faint sweatiness keeps the bloom from turning sugary. The heart is already dark, yet the base drags it further: oud’s leathery rot braids with frankincense’s pine-smoke, ambered patchouli throws earthy red dust, and sandalwood plus cedar provide a dry, blond wood frame that stops the tarry notes from sticking to skin. After two hours the spices recede, leaving a smoldering core of oud-amber that radiates a low, resinous hum for the rest of the wear cycle. Projection sits at arm’s length, perfect for cool autumn nights or a winter dinner date.
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.
