Changing Constance Penhaligon's
Cardamom opens with a spice note that reads closer to warm chai than to anything medicinal — green-sweet, slightly smoky, priming you for what follows.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Caramel70
- Vanilla65
- Cardamom55
- Tonka40
- Tobacco40
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens with a spice note that reads closer to warm chai than to anything medicinal — green-sweet, slightly smoky, priming you for what follows. Caramel in the heart is the conceptual center: sweet and buttery but not aggressively dessert-like, more the caramelization of a warm sugar crust than a candied treat. The trajectory from cardamom to caramel is coherent, each note setting up the next.
The base of vanilla, cashmeran, and tobacco is where the composition earns its depth. Cashmeran's distinctive cashmere-like warmth gives a plushness that vanilla and tobacco alone don't produce; the tobacco note is dry rather than smoky, adding a subtle bitterness that cuts the sweetness without undoing it.
A winter fragrance for people who want something sweet without going fully gourmand.
