Oscent Black
Ginger and anise open with a sharp, dry bite — the anise staying medicinal rather than sweet, the ginger adding a faint warmth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Smoky70
- Balsamic65
- Tobacco60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Anise
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Cedar
- Tobacco
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and anise open with a sharp, dry bite — the anise staying medicinal rather than sweet, the ginger adding a faint warmth. The composition quickly settles into its core: frankincense and olibanum provide a resinous, slightly waxy smoke, while cedar keeps things grounded and patchouli adds a faint earthiness beneath.
Tobacco emerges as a supporting character rather than a lead, lending a dried-leaf dryness that blends with labdanum's dark sweetness. Vanilla arrives late, softening the resins without making the whole thing gourmand.
The overall character is dry, resinous, and quietly smoky — sitting closer to incense-heavy Arabic-influenced compositions than to sweet orientals. It wears with moderate presence and suits cooler evenings well.
Scent twins
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