Northern Cardinal
Lemon and bergamot open with a sharp citrus snap that gives way quickly to leather and clary sage.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Clary Sage
- Rose
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with a sharp citrus snap that gives way quickly to leather and clary sage. The transition feels designed rather than gradual; the citrus is a fuse, not a phase.
Leather sits at the centre of the heart, dressed up by rose petal sweetness and the herbal-tea bitterness of clary sage. The combination reads more refined than rugged, the rose softening the leather without prettifying it entirely.
Oakmoss, vanilla, patchouli and musk close the base in a chypre-leaning drydown with surprising vanillic warmth. Patchouli supplies earth and the moss its damp shadow. Overall the character is a leather-rose chypre with herbal accents, autumn-weighted and tilted toward evening and date wear.
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.
