Grandenia
Olibanum, bergamot, and lemon open with a cool, resinous brightness — incense edged with citrus, slightly medicinal.
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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.
- Balsamic85
- Warm Spicy80
- Cinnamon75
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Olibanum
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Cinnamon
- Rosemary
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readOlibanum, bergamot, and lemon open with a cool, resinous brightness — incense edged with citrus, slightly medicinal. Rosemary sharpens the herbal register, while cinnamon and nutmeg bring the composition into warmer, spiced territory as the heart develops. Gardenia adds a creamy white-floral note that tempers the spice without dominating it.
Myrrh and saffron deepen the base considerably alongside sandalwood and tonka bean. Saffron lends a slight leathery, honeyed quality; myrrh reinforces the incense thread from the opening.
The result is a layered, resinous spiced fragrance — balsamic and warm rather than sweet, with real compositional depth across its arc. Dense and deliberate.
Scent twins
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