La Capitale
The name suggests a city of consequence, and the composition follows through.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Amber65
- Caramel60
- Balsamic50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Strawberry
- Labdanum
- Peach
- Caramel
- Ginger
- Leather
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readThe name suggests a city of consequence, and the composition follows through. An opening of strawberry, peach, and caramel is warmer and more immediately gratifying than Xerjoff's typically austere orientals — there's sweetness here right from the start, though labdanum underneath keeps it from reading as purely gourmand. The heart is where the character emerges: leather adds a dry animalic counterpoint, saffron contributes its faintly medicinal earthiness, and rose bridges the gap without turning floral. Benzoin in the base sweetens and smooths the dry-down to a warm amber resin. Dense but not heavy — a cold-weather oriental built for lingering.
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.
