Derby
Cardamom snaps open cool and peppery, its citrus edge sharpened by green basil that keeps the top brisk rather than sweet.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Warm Spicy60
- Woody60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Cardamom
- Cinnamon
- Myrrh
- Sandalwood
- Birch
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom snaps open cool and peppery, its citrus edge sharpened by green basil that keeps the top brisk rather than sweet. Cinnamon quickly folds into the gap, shedding its bakery warmth and turning dry and papery as myrrh’s bitter incense haze thickens the heart, tugging the composition toward an austere, resinous leather accord. Beneath, sandalwood and patchouli form a muted earthy platform, while birch tar adds a creosote lift and vetiver splinters the base with rooty smoke, all softened only slightly by clean white musk that stops the tar from turning acrid. The scent stays linear after the first hour, projecting at arm’s length for four hours then pulling closer as a woody skin whisper. Cool evenings, smart-casual offices, and fall through early spring weather fit its dry spice-leather character best.
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.
