Le Vestiaire - Caban
Carlos Benaïm's 2015 Caban opens on three peppers stacked together — elemi, pink, black — that read as one bright resinous burst rather than three discrete materials.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Warm Spicy65
- Woody60
- Balsamic55
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Elemi
- Pink Pepper
- Incense
- Olibanum
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readCarlos Benaïm's 2015 Caban opens on three peppers stacked together — elemi, pink, black — that read as one bright resinous burst rather than three discrete materials. The construction is intentionally compressed: olibanum and osmanthus form an incense-resin heart that sits almost continuous with the top.
Tonka, sandalwood and patchouli land soft and dry. There's no transition arc to speak of — Caban is a single chord held throughout, the way the Le Vestiaire line generally works. Sillage is contained; the fragrance functions as a dry-spicy skin warmth more than a projecting oriental. Quiet but expensive-feeling, and clearly uninterested in announcing itself.
Scent twins
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