Istanbul's Soul
Incense opens dry and resinous, crackling like cooled ash against cedar’s pencil-sharp wood.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Woody80
- Smoky70
- Amber60
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readIncense opens dry and resinous, crackling like cooled ash against cedar’s pencil-sharp wood. Patchouli arrives early, adding a camphorous earthiness that darkens the smoke and pulls the cedar downward into the base. There, tonka bean folds its almond-sweet coumarin around sandalwood’s creamy grain, while guaiac wood contributes a faint tarry rasp that keeps the smoke alive. Benzoin and amber merge into a soft, honeyed amber that glows low rather than shines, letting the woods smolder for hours. Projection stays within arm’s length; the scent feels built for cool evenings when wool scarves absorb the ember warmth.
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.