Sandalwood and Cypress Cologne Intense
Bergamot flashes bright and cool, then gets swallowed by a spice rack: cardamom’s green heat, cumin’s oily sweat, and a crackle of black and pink peppers that sting more than soothe.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Black Pepper
- Cumin
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and cool, then gets swallowed by a spice rack: cardamom’s green heat, cumin’s oily sweat, and a crackle of black and pink peppers that sting more than soothe. The heart stays peppery, but the woods underneath—sandalwood smooth, guaiac dry, cedar sharp—push the spices outward so the scent hovers like dry woodsmoke soaked in resin. Styrax and olibanum add a dark, incense-like treacle that clings to skin and clothes alike, turning the later hours into a lacrid, slightly sour sandalwood ember. Projection pushes a polite arm’s-length radius for six hours, then settles into a woody, incense-tinged skin veil. Cool evenings, smart-casual offices, fall through early winter suit its dry wood-and-spice architecture.
Scent twins
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