Sienne d'Orange
Cardamom opens with a dry, aromatic quality — spiced without sweetness, slightly medicinal at first breath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 accords.
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- Leather90
- Iris60
- Fresh Spicy50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Iris
- Leather
- Musk
- Leather
- Cardamom
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens with a dry, aromatic quality — spiced without sweetness, slightly medicinal at first breath. As it develops, iris emerges with a cool, chalky presence, the two notes creating an interesting friction: earthy spice against powdery floral.
Leather arrives steadily in the base and eventually dominates. It is dry rather than oily, with a faint smokiness and an animalic edge that keeps it from feeling polished or safe. Musk extends the leather rather than softening it significantly.
This reads as a tight, uncompromising composition — three distinct phases, each spare. The leather-iris combination in particular is arresting, and the cardamom introduction gives the whole thing an unexpected entry point.
Scent twins
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