Stramonio
Stramonio — the Italian name for datura, a flowering plant with intoxicating and toxic properties — opens with jasmine and saffron, an Oriental declaration that wastes no time establishing its character.
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.
- Amber70
- Musk60
- Oakmoss60
- Jasmine50
- Vanilla50
By the editors · 2 min readStramonio — the Italian name for datura, a flowering plant with intoxicating and toxic properties — opens with jasmine and saffron, an Oriental declaration that wastes no time establishing its character. Saffron provides the initial metallic-honeyed warmth before jasmine arrives in the heart alongside ambergris, vanilla, and musk, the whole accord shifting from sharp to smooth within the first hour.
Oakmoss and patchouli in the base confirm this as a classic Oriental-chypre hybrid, the kind of construction V Canto consistently works in: luxury-niche materials handled without restraint. The rose noted in the general list appears quietly underneath everything, lending a softening warmth rather than announcing itself. Dense and long-lasting — a fragrance that reads its namesake plant correctly.
