Virtu
Cardamom opens with quiet warmth over a papyrus note that reads dry and slightly papery — an unusual pairing that keeps the spice from feeling sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Mossy65
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Papyrus
- Cardamom
- Moss
- Birch
- Sandalwood
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens with quiet warmth over a papyrus note that reads dry and slightly papery — an unusual pairing that keeps the spice from feeling sweet. The opening is restrained, leaning toward the aromatic rather than the bright.
Birch and moss emerge in the heart, adding a cool, green-woody dimension. The birch carries a faint smokiness, which shifts the composition toward something darker and more textured.
Sandalwood, leather, and cedar ground the dry-down into a firm, dry-wood finish. The musk stays close to the skin. Overall this is a masculine-leaning aromatic woody structure — grounded, slightly smoky, with no sweetness pulling it off course.
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.
