Black Collection - I
Cinnamon and cardamom open with dry, bright spice — cardamom lending its cool, slightly mentholated edge against cinnamon's warmer bite.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Cinnamon90
- Warm Spicy70
- Balsamic60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
- Frankincense
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and cardamom open with dry, bright spice — cardamom lending its cool, slightly mentholated edge against cinnamon's warmer bite. There is immediate clarity and directness here, no fruit or sweetness softening the spice.
Frankincense enters as the heart develops, adding resinous, slightly ashy smoke that shifts the composition into sacred-space territory. Sandalwood provides a creamy, smooth wood presence that keeps the frankincense from going too austere.
Musk in the base is the sole anchor, holding everything together without adding further complexity. The result is a spare, spice-and-incense structure — cinnamon over frankincense over sandalwood — with genuine restraint and a meditative, slow-burning character throughout.
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.




