Push The Heat
Cardamom crackles first, a dry green spice that lifts the whole composition into an aromatic register rather than gourmand.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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 Spicy70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Lavender
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom crackles first, a dry green spice that lifts the whole composition into an aromatic register rather than gourmand. Lavender follows immediately, cool and slightly camphorous, slicing through the spice to create a barbershop-clean heart that keeps the scent airborne. Tonka and vanilla arrive together in the base, but their usual creaminess is tempered by patchouli’s dusty chocolate facets and vetiver’s taut, grassy smoke, so the dry-down feels matte rather than syrupy. On skin the accord shifts from brisk spice to soft tobacco-tonka over four hours, projecting at arm’s-length for the first hour then settling into a cotton-close veil that clings to knitwear. The absence of citric top material makes it wearable in cold weather without turning sharp, while the aromatic lavender core keeps it office-appropriate.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
