Eidesis
Petitgrain, black pepper and frankincense open with a dry, smoky brightness, the petitgrain giving a green citrus edge to the resin's heat.
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.
- Smoky85
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Black Pepper
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Cumin
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain, black pepper and frankincense open with a dry, smoky brightness, the petitgrain giving a green citrus edge to the resin's heat. Olibanum joins immediately to deepen the smoke, and the opening reads as both fresh and ceremonial in the same breath.
Cumin lands in the heart with a faintly animalic warmth, layered with more frankincense and cedar that holds the smoky thread steady. The base of sandalwood, vetiver and cedar grounds the composition in a dry, almost dusty woody finish. Overall the character is a meditative incense-and-wood composition, austere rather than sweet, with a slow steady projection and a long, ash-like drydown that holds quietly on skin.
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.
