Bois Oriental
Cinnamon and clove arrive first, dry and assertive, with cardamom adding a slightly smoky edge.
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.
- Cinnamon90
- Vanilla70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Plum
- Vanilla
- Peach
- Clove
- Cardamom
- Violet
- Musk
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and clove arrive first, dry and assertive, with cardamom adding a slightly smoky edge. The spice registers as warm and dense rather than sweet at the outset.
Plum and peach soften the composition in the middle, lending a stone-fruit richness that keeps the spices from reading as austere. Violet and rose offer a quiet floral thread without pushing the accord into traditional oriental-floral territory.
Vanilla and musk ground the drydown, pulling everything into a smooth, resinous warmth. The cinnamon persists well into the base, giving the overall structure a spine that distinguishes it from softer, fruitier takes on the same DNA.
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.
