Un Crime Exotique 12.1
Cinnamon leads the opening, dry and bark-like rather than red-hot, with star anise braided through it for a quiet liquorice-aniseed sparkle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Herbal50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Star Anise
- Osmanthus
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon leads the opening, dry and bark-like rather than red-hot, with star anise braided through it for a quiet liquorice-aniseed sparkle. The first minutes have a confectioner's-shop warmth without tipping into sweetness yet.
Osmanthus emerges in the heart with its leathery apricot-tea quality, lending a fruity-floral suppleness that bridges the spice and the base. Sandalwood and vanilla then take over, the cinnamon mellowing into the cream — like spiced milk slowly cooling on a saucer. The vanilla stays restrained, more pod than syrup, and the sandalwood smooths the warm spices into something plush and unhurried.
Overall character: a soft warm-spice gourmand with a creamy-woody floor. Projection moderate; long drydown lingers as a sweet-spiced skin halo.
Scent twins
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