Alexandria II Anniversary
Lavender opens cold and herbal, threaded with cumin's animal warmth and the green crackle of cardamom — a top that reads almost barbershop until the rose pushes through.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Rose70
- Oud70
- Lavender60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bulgarian Rose
- Cumin
- Cardamom
- Orris
- Mint
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens cold and herbal, threaded with cumin's animal warmth and the green crackle of cardamom — a top that reads almost barbershop until the rose pushes through. Bulgarian rose holds the heart steady while orris adds a powdery, cool spine and mint flickers across it like a cold draft.
Underneath, oud and cypriol burn slow and resinous; civet keeps the composition feline, never sanitized. Clary sage and amber bridge the floral and the animalic, smoothing what would otherwise be a sharp transition.
The drydown settles into vanilla and musk against that resin floor — warm, intimate, distinctly worn-on-skin. It wants colder air and unhurried evenings; not a perfume that competes in a crowd.
Scent twins
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