Abyan
Cinnamon dominates the opening, its dry heat crackling against tart raspberry and sharp lemon-grapefruit, creating an immediately spicy-fruit contrast that feels almost candied.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Fresh50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Raspberry
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Apple
- Violet Leaf
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon dominates the opening, its dry heat crackling against tart raspberry and sharp lemon-grapefruit, creating an immediately spicy-fruit contrast that feels almost candied. Apple slides in next, sweet and crisp, letting violet leaf’s cold green bite slice through the sugar while a quiet rose adds soft floral lift. Leather arrives early, warmed by civet’s musky growl, so the heart stays animalic rather than fresh; cedar keeps the woods dry and linear. The dry-down is musk-heavy, the raspberry reduced to a stained-glass memory and the spices folded into a dark, leathery fur. Projection stays within arm’s length for most of the wearing, making it office-tolerant yet still assertive; cool fall evenings show it best. Moderate longevity, moderate complexity, high contrast between bright top and animalic base.
Scent twins
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