Un Crime Exotique
Cinnamon and star anise open assertively — the spice is sharp and immediate, the anise lending a sweet-herbal edge that keeps it from reading as purely culinary.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Cinnamon90
- Vanilla80
- Warm Spicy70
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Star Anise
- Osmanthus
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and star anise open assertively — the spice is sharp and immediate, the anise lending a sweet-herbal edge that keeps it from reading as purely culinary. The pairing is direct and warm.
Osmanthus in the heart softens things considerably, adding an apricot-like, slightly suede-textured floral quality that bridges the spiced opening and the vanilla base. The transition is the most interesting phase of the composition.
Vanilla closes warmly and without complication, amplifying the sweetness established by the cinnamon. The overall arc is compact: a spiced oriental with a short but clear development. The Un Crime Exotique 12.1 neighbor confirms the warm-spicy-vanilla identity is the defining register here.
Scent twins
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