Note di Colonia III
A meditative, resin-driven cologne that treats incense as its main subject.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readA meditative, resin-driven cologne that treats incense as its main subject. Ginger opens with a dry warm bite; the heart layers vetiver and jasmine against frankincense and olibanum — the latter two essentially the same resin from different traditions, which doubles the smoke without adding a second dimension.
The base extends the resin theme: tonka adds an almondy hay sweetness, myrrh deepens the smoke into something dustier and more medicinal, and labdanum binds it all into a balsamic warmth. It wears longer than a true cologne and quieter than a true incense perfume — closer to a churchly, contemplative fragrance built on a Mediterranean chassis.
Scent twins
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