Cruz del Sur I
Cruz del Sur I opens with rum and grapefruit colliding over bergamot — boozy, bright, and a little disorienting.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Amber70
- Leather70
- Soft Spicy50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Rum
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Cumin
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readCruz del Sur I opens with rum and grapefruit colliding over bergamot — boozy, bright, and a little disorienting. The rum is the lead note, sweet and slightly sticky, and the citrus keeps it from collapsing into syrup.
The heart shifts toward dry spice, with cinnamon and cumin warming a thin cedar spine. From there the composition turns inward: incense and myrrh take over the air, and a thick base of leather, castoreum, and labdanum builds beneath them. Sandalwood and amber smooth the whole thing into something heavy, animalic, and almost medicinal.
Wear it cold — outdoors, after dark, when the room can absorb the smoke.
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.
