Narcissus Poeticus
Galbanum opens with a sharp, intensely green, almost rubbery quality that is distinctive and immediately assertive.
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.
- Honey60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Honey
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum opens with a sharp, intensely green, almost rubbery quality that is distinctive and immediately assertive. Bergamot provides a citrus counterpoint but doesn't soften the galbanum's edge significantly — the top is green-dominant.
With no heart notes listed, the composition transitions from galbanum-bergamot directly into tonka bean, sandalwood, honey, and musk. The base is warm and sweet — honey adding richness, tonka contributing almond-like softness, and sandalwood providing creamy wood beneath. The contrast between the sharp galbanum opening and the warm honeyed base is the structural core of this fragrance — an unusual green-to-honey arc with limited middle development.
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.
