Opus XII – Rose Incense
Opus XII opens with frankincense, elemi, and a black-ink accord most prominent in the first minutes — a slightly cold, astringent quality before the smoke and resin begin to warm.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Smoky90
- Rose55
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Elemi
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Ink
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readOpus XII opens with frankincense, elemi, and a black-ink accord most prominent in the first minutes — a slightly cold, astringent quality before the smoke and resin begin to warm. The heart brings damask rose water into a frankincense-suede combination, the rose sitting as a watercolor tint rather than a full-bloom floral, which gives the composition a gauzy, translucent character unusual for the house's typically dense approach. Myrrh, sandalwood, and vanilla smooth and sweeten the drydown considerably, the trajectory running from cold-resinous to warm-sweet with the rose appearing and disappearing throughout.
A more restrained and meditative composition than most Amouage, suited to cool evenings and formal occasions.
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.
