Collectible PHI - Une Rose de Kandahar
Cinnamon and bergamot lead — the spice is warm and close, preventing the citrus from registering as merely bright.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Cinnamon65
- Sweet60
- Vanilla55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Apricot
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Ambergris
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and bergamot lead — the spice is warm and close, preventing the citrus from registering as merely bright. Apricot adds a tart-sweet fruitiness that makes the cinnamon read more like dried fruit than bakery. The listed heart is empty, making this effectively a spiced opening that moves directly into the base: an arid arrangement of tonka, vetiver, ambergris, vanilla, and patchouli.
Andy Tauer's characteristic base style is present — the dry vetiver and patchouli prevent the tonka and vanilla from going purely sweet, while ambergris provides a warm, slightly salty depth. The name references Kandahar, and the fragrance has something of an arid, sun-warmed quality — dusty and resinous rather than floral. Long-lasting and substantial, most rewarding in cold weather.
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.
