Caput Mundi
Caput Mundi opens cool and rosy — Bulgarian rose laid over lily-of-the-valley with a metallic iris glint that keeps the top from going syrupy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Rose70
- Iris70
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bulgarian Rose
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
- Sandalwood
- Orris
- Saffron
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readCaput Mundi opens cool and rosy — Bulgarian rose laid over lily-of-the-valley with a metallic iris glint that keeps the top from going syrupy. Almost immediately the heart turns drier and more serious: orris and saffron tighten the rose into something powdery and slightly bitter, with patchouli grounding it under a polished sandalwood.
The drydown is where the perfume earns its name. Ambergris and cedar take over, salty and resinous, and the rose-iris pair lingers above them like incense smoke over old stone. It reads ceremonial rather than romantic — close to the skin, long-lasting, and built for cool evenings or formal rooms where you want presence without volume.
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.
