Plum Japonais
The opening is a warm haze of cinnamon and saffron, rich and slightly medicinal, with plum lending a fleshy sweetness that keeps the spice from turning too dry.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Cinnamon85
- Amber80
- Vanilla70
- Labdanum50
- Cardamom40
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a warm haze of cinnamon and saffron, rich and slightly medicinal, with plum lending a fleshy sweetness that keeps the spice from turning too dry. It's not the tart skin of the fruit but the bruised, honeyed pulp—dark and nearly overripe. The spices feel less like a kitchen and more like a lacquered wooden box that once held incense.
As it settles, amber and benzoin thicken the base into something resinous and enveloping, while vanilla smooths the edges without turning gourmand. The plum recedes but leaves a faint jammy stickiness behind, like fruit preserved in syrup centuries ago.
This is Tom Ford at his most unabashedly opulent—dense, sweet, and unapologetically loud. It suits cold evenings and people who don't mind being noticed before they enter the room.
