Sportivo
Cardamom opens with a cool, peppery snap that immediately tilts the composition toward fresh-spicy territory rather than bakery warmth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Sage
- Lavender
- Labdanum
- Cedar
- Gardenia
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens with a cool, peppery snap that immediately tilts the composition toward fresh-spicy territory rather than bakery warmth. Sage and lavender arrive together, the sage adding a silvery-green camphor edge that keeps the lavender from turning powdery, while cedar in the base provides a dry, pencil-shaving backbone that flanks the herbs without adding sweetness. The listed white flor florals—gardenia, jasmine, lily—stay recessive, reading more as a diffuse clean lift than as distinct blossoms, letting the aromatic heart dominate through the mid-stage. Labdanum surfaces late, lending a faint leathery resin that melds with skin-close musk and a whisper of sandalwood to create a muted ambery glow rather than a full oriental finish. Projection hovers at conversational distance for four hours then collapses to a cedar-musk skin veil ideal for office days or post-gym errands in spring through early fall.
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.




