Musk Deer
Cardamom opens with a sharp, dry spice that immediately frames the composition as dark and purposeful.
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.
- Patchouli90
- Balsamic70
- Warm Spicy60
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Rose
- Patchouli
- Atlas Cedar
- Patchouli
- Cardamom
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens with a sharp, dry spice that immediately frames the composition as dark and purposeful. Rose sits beneath it — not bright or fresh, but dusky and bruised, pushed toward something almost fermented by the surrounding notes.
Patchouli and Atlas cedar in the heart create a deep, resinous forest texture. The patchouli is earthy and prominent, while the cedar adds angular dryness. Together they suggest the animalic warmth the fragrance's name implies without relying on a literal musk note.
The drydown is balsamic and smoky, evolving slowly and staying close to skin. Dense and deliberately challenging, it rewards patience rather than immediate approval.
Scent twins
In this family
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