Chess Club
Cinnamon and clary sage open warm and slightly bitter, the spice note immediately sweetened by lemon brightness while lavender keeps the top from turning candied.
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.
- Leather80
- Musky60
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Sage
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Clary Sage
- Leather
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and clary sage open warm and slightly bitter, the spice note immediately sweetened by lemon brightness while lavender keeps the top from turning candied. Leather enters early, its tanned hide edges tinged with tobacco leaf that darkens the cinnamon into a dry, papery warmth rather than bakery sweetness. Vanilla arrives as a softening agent, blunting the tobacco's ash and letting the leather relax into a skin-close musk that smells like worn jacket lining rather than saddle. The scent stays linear: the opening spice never fully leaves, it just sinks into the leather-tobacco accord and lets the musk handle diffusion. Projection sits at arm's length for four hours then collapses to a warm skin veil, best worn in cool weather when the tobacco won't feel cloying.
Scent twins
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