Vibrant Leather & Sandalwood Elixir
Cardamom opens green-warm, almost vegetal, more pod than spice rack.
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.
- Woody70
- Warm Spicy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Carrot Seeds
- Sandalwood
- Woody Notes
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens green-warm, almost vegetal, more pod than spice rack. Carrot seeds at the heart give a powdery, slightly rooty bridge — quieter than the name "elixir" suggests. The base settles into sandalwood and a generic woody accord: creamy, dry, and persistent without becoming dense.
Despite the "leather" billing on the family bottle line, no leather note is listed in this flanker, and none materializes on skin. What you get is a clean masculine wood that wears closer than it projects — five or six hours of legible drydown, polite for office, weighted enough for cool evenings. Among Zara's recent woods this one keeps its scale.
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.
