Fakhama
Fakhama opens with Bulgarian and Damask rose layered over cardamom and coffee — a dense, spiced floral that feels immediately opulent.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Smoky70
- Mossy60
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Bulgarian Rose
- Cardamom
- Damask Rose
- Coffee
- Ginger
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readFakhama opens with Bulgarian and Damask rose layered over cardamom and coffee — a dense, spiced floral that feels immediately opulent. The coffee adds a roasted edge that keeps the rose grounded rather than purely decorative.
In the heart, saffron and patchouli deepen the composition while sandalwood and benzoin introduce a resinous warmth. Vetiver adds an earthy undercurrent that prevents the sweetness from dominating.
The base is where the character becomes unmistakably animalic — civet and castoreum alongside oakmoss, leather, and incense create a smoky, slightly feral drydown. This is dense, tenacious, and built for cool evenings. The rose thread remains visible throughout, anchoring the whole structure.
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.
