Incense Wood
Saffron and pink pepper open with a warm, spicy-aromatic sharpness that is lightly brightened by bergamot's citrus touch.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Olibanum
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and pink pepper open with a warm, spicy-aromatic sharpness that is lightly brightened by bergamot's citrus touch. Incense and olibanum form a smoky, resinous heart that feels dry and slightly church-like in its meditative quality. Vanilla softens the composition's austerity, adding a sweet, creamy counterpoint to the woody and earthy base notes. Patchouli contributes an earthy, slightly chocolatey depth that blends with musk's clean skin-scent character in the dry-down. The scent projects strongly for the first two hours before contracting to a moderate, intimate radius that lasts six to eight hours. Best worn in cool weather for formal or contemplative occasions, it balances smoke and sweetness.
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.




