Labdanum is My Love Language
Olibanum opens with a resinous, slightly citrusy smoke that clings close to skin, setting a meditative tone before the base surges forward.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Olibanum
- Tonka Bean
- Guaiac Wood
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readOlibanum opens with a resinous, slightly citrusy smoke that clings close to skin, setting a meditative tone before the base surges forward. Tonka bean and vanilla merge into a creamy almond-soft sweetness that blunts the frankincense edges, while guaiac wood’s dry, pencil-shaving woodiness keeps the accord from turning syrupy. Amber here is the stretchy, labdanum-rich kind, adding a honeyed, leather-tinged glow that warms the composition through the heart and dominates the dry-down. On skin the fragrance stays linear: the incense never truly departs, it just sinks into the vanillic amber until only a faint, sweet woodsmoke remains. Projection sits at arm’s length for four hours then hugs skin for another four, making it an unobtrusive choice for cool evenings or layered wear.
Scent twins
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