Nightfall In Madrid
Cardamom crackles first, hot and resinous against crisp green apple skin that reads more pear-juicy than red.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Cardamom
- Tonka Bean
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom crackles first, hot and resinous against crisp green apple skin that reads more pear-juicy than red. The spice folds into a warm heart where tonka’s soft almond facet cushions nutmeg’s dry bite, creating a fuzzy amber glow that already hints at the woody base. Within forty minutes sandalwood’s creamed milk meets cashmeran’s musky cedar, while patchouli adds a light cocoa earthiness and amber stretches the composition in a soft caramel haze. It stays close, a skin-level hum perfect for autumn office days or after-work drinks when you want warmth without statement. Projection hovers at arm-length for three hours then collapses to a sweet wood-powder whisper that survives the commute but seldom the midnight hour.
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.
