Incarnata
Incarnata opens with a tart raspberry that almost immediately softens against cool violet, setting up a fruity-floral tension that feels more intimate than showy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Balsamic70
- Rose50
- Iris50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Violet
- Myrrh
- Rose
- Benzoin
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readIncarnata opens with a tart raspberry that almost immediately softens against cool violet, setting up a fruity-floral tension that feels more intimate than showy. As the heart develops, rose and myrrh pull the composition inward — the myrrh adds a dry, slightly smoky resin that keeps the rose from going pink or sugary.
The base deepens steadily: benzoin and amber layer warm sweetness beneath everything, while suede contributes a soft, matte texture that prevents the vanilla from becoming dessert-like. The overall effect is a close-worn, resinous floral with a blurred quality — cool fruit on warm skin, resin anchoring petal and suede. It wears close but leaves a presence.
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.
