Series Three - M
Cardamom opens dry and aromatic, its cool green bite setting a clean stage for the darker notes to follow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Animalic80
- Leather70
- Soft Spicy60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Plum
- Atlas Cedar
- Tonka Bean
- Civet
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens dry and aromatic, its cool green bite setting a clean stage for the darker notes to follow. Plum arrives quickly, adding a bruised purple sweetness that sticks to the cedar’s dry woodgrain, turning the heart faintly jammy yet still crisp. The base is where the perfume’s personality lives: civet and castoreum lay down a growling fur-and-leather accord, while tonka pours a thin stream of toasted almond and sweet hay over the musk, keeping the animalics from turning feral. After an hour the plum recedes, letting the cedar re-sharpen against the musky castoreum so the skin now smells like wood stored in a tack room. Projection stays within arm’s length for most of the day, making it wearable office leather for cool fall days rather than nightclub pelt.
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.
