Incense Wood
Cardamom snaps open with a cool-green bite that slices through bergamot’s sun-lit zest, creating a bright aromatic flash that quickly warms the skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Incense
- Patchouli
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom snaps open with a cool-green bite that slices through bergamot’s sun-lit zest, creating a bright aromatic flash that quickly warms the skin. Sandalwood arrives first in the heart, its creamy wood grain polished by incense smoke that drifts in slow ribbons rather than billows, while patchouli adds a dry cocoa-earth scaffold that keeps the woods from turning velvety. The base is a resinous prism: frankincense and labdanum fuse into a translucent amber glow, tonka softens the edges with a faint hay-like sweetness, and white musks stretch the embers until they feel like a second, slightly powdered skin. Over hours the incense loses its sparkle and settles into a steady, low-heat resin that hums just outside personal space.
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.
