Clandestine Clara
A striking opening of cardamom and rum accord announces itself with confidence, pulling you into what feels like a warmly lit drawing room after dark.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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 Spicy60
- Cinnamon50
- Rum50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Cinnamon
- Rum
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Opoponax
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readA striking opening of cardamom and rum accord announces itself with confidence, pulling you into what feels like a warmly lit drawing room after dark. The spice here isn't subtle—it crackles with intensity before settling into a richer, more enveloping embrace of patchouli and tonka bean. There's a vintage quality to the composition, reminiscent of heavier oriental perfumes from decades past, yet it avoids feeling dated through careful balance.
As it develops, the sweetness becomes more pronounced—honeyed, almost syrupy—while maintaining enough woody depth to keep things grounded. This is fragrance for cooler weather and evening wear, substantial enough that a light application goes a long way. It suits someone comfortable with presence, unafraid of being noticed across a room.
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.
