Wild Essence
A brisk opening of mint and lemon delivers an immediate cooling and citrusy freshness, quickly spiced by the warm, aromatic kick of cardamom.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
- Cinnamon
- Lavender
- Black Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readA brisk opening of mint and lemon delivers an immediate cooling and citrusy freshness, quickly spiced by the warm, aromatic kick of cardamom. The heart develops into a warm-spicy accord where cinnamon and nutmeg provide sweetness, black pepper adds prickly heat, and lavender contributes a herbal, aromatic nuance over a creamy sandalwood core. The dry-down reveals a rich base where ambergris offers a salty, musky warmth, tobacco adds a dry, leathery depth, and patchouli provides an earthy foundation, all sweetened by tonka bean. This is a complex, spicy-oriental scent with strong projection and longevity, best for cool weather evenings.
Scent twins
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