Hale Bopp
Cinnamon bark and lemon zest crack open with a hot, sweet spark that nutmeg quickly dusts with dry woodiness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Lemon
- Nutmeg
- Sage
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon bark and lemon zest crack open with a hot, sweet spark that nutmeg quickly dusts with dry woodiness. Sage enters early, its bitter-green edge slicing through the gourmand heat while vanilla’s creamy body swells underneath, anchoring the spices in a soft amber cushion. Patchouli arrives dark and earthy, merging with sandalwood’s milky warmth to pull the scent away from bakery toward dry woods. Labdanum and ambergris streak mineral saltines across the skin, extending the amber glow without syrup thickness; musk stays low, a skin-close hum that keeps projection polite. The dry-down is a muted, resinous wood ember rather than a sugar bomb, comfortable for cool evenings when you want spice without shouting.
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.
