Santalum
Cardamom opens with a cool, almost medicinal sharpness before the composition settles into a quieter register.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Musk
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens with a cool, almost medicinal sharpness before the composition settles into a quieter register. There is no sweetness here to soften the spice — it sits cleanly over a dry, resinous base.
Sandalwood and vetiver anchor the heart, the former creamy in texture but held in check by vetiver's earthy, slightly smoky pull. Olibanum adds a thin veil of incense, keeping things austere rather than warm. Musk threads through without amplifying anything.
The overall effect is minimal and dry — a deliberately stripped-back woody-spicy portrait that wears close to skin. Best suited to cool weather and moments requiring restraint.
Scent twins
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