Hamartia
Cardamom opens with a warm, aromatic spice that immediately intertwines with rich dark chocolate and a deep roasted coffee accord.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Caramel60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Chocolate
- Coffee
- Lily of the Valley
- Osmanthus
- Caramel
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens with a warm, aromatic spice that immediately intertwines with rich dark chocolate and a deep roasted coffee accord. Osmanthus and lily of the valley introduce a delicate floral counterpoint to the gourmand heart, softened further by a sweet caramel infusion. The base transitions into a dry, woody structure where birch and cedar provide a smoky edge, complemented by the animalic depth of musk and the earthy resonance of agarwood. Over several hours, the scent evolves from a dense, edible opening to a more austere and leathery dry-down with significant projection. Best suited for cool weather evenings, it maintains a strong sillage for the first few hours before settling closer to the skin.
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.
