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.
- Patchouli60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Olibanum
- Blood Orange
- Orange
- Benzoin
- Opoponax
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readOlibanum opens with a resinous and balsamic character that is both smoky and slightly medicinal. Blood orange and orange provide a bright citrus contrast that cuts through the density of the frankincense. The heart remains focused on these resinous notes as they deepen into the base. Benzoin and opoponax intensify the balsamic sweetness, while patchouli adds an earthy, grounding quality. The scent evolves slowly, retaining its resinous core with a warm, incense-like trail. Sillage is moderate but persistent, lasting well over twelve hours on skin. Best suited for cool weather and evening wear, where its rich, aromatic quality feels most appropriate.
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.
