Narcos Is
Cardamom and coffee hit together — not a café-breakfast harmony but something denser, more pharmaceutical in the best sense, like a very good espresso that's gone cold on the counter.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Amber65
- Cardamom60
- Vetiver55
- Peach45
- Musk40
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom and coffee hit together — not a café-breakfast harmony but something denser, more pharmaceutical in the best sense, like a very good espresso that's gone cold on the counter. Ginger enters mid-wear with a dry bite, while amber underneath offers warmth without turning gourmand. The base pulls in two directions at once: vetiver's rooty darkness bracing against peach's soft, slightly fermented sweetness, and a real ambergris note threading a marine-skin quality through the whole thing. The result is unusual — dark and animalic but clean, bittersweet rather than sweet-sweet. Best on skin that can handle the intensity.
