Y-3 Black Label
Cardamom snaps open with a cool, green-tinged spice that feels like crushed pods rather than bakery warmth.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Lavender
- Black Pepper
- Cedar
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom snaps open with a cool, green-tinged spice that feels like crushed pods rather than bakery warmth. Lavender steps in immediately, clean and slightly camphorous, tempering the spice into a crisp aromatic field where black pepper adds quiet sparkle. Cedar’s dry wood shavings weave through the heart, keeping the lavender airy and preventing the spice from turning creamy. As the top recedes, tonka bean’s soft almond facet emerges, merging with vetiver’s rooty smoke to create a muted tobacco-tonic accord. Patchouii stays in the rear, supplying earthy shadows that anchor the lavender-wood axis without overt funk. The scent wears close, projecting an arm’s-length woody freshness for six-to-eight hours, ideal for office air-conditioning or cool spring evenings when you want polish without sweetness.
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.
