Tobacco + Musk
Star anise and cardamom open with a cool, spiced quality — the anise providing a slightly herbal-sweet edge while the cardamom adds warmth.
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
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
- Musk
- Amber
- Clove
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise and cardamom open with a cool, spiced quality — the anise providing a slightly herbal-sweet edge while the cardamom adds warmth. Together they create an opening that reads more complex than the note count suggests.
Amber and clove deepen the mid-development, the clove sharpening the spice profile while amber pulls everything warmer. Tobacco arrives in the base — dry, slightly smoky, adding the texture that most tobacco-adjacent fragrances rely on. The composition is deliberately simple: a spiced tobacco accord that doesn't overcomplicate itself. Confidence is high because the materials interact predictably and the name accurately describes the result.
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.
