Nanban
A sharp pepper-saffron opening hits first, dry and slightly metallic, the saffron lending its characteristic suede-warm hum almost from the first second.
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.
- Smoky70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Myrrh
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readA sharp pepper-saffron opening hits first, dry and slightly metallic, the saffron lending its characteristic suede-warm hum almost from the first second. The pepper crackles briefly before the heart pulls everything inward.
The middle is dense and resinous: sandalwood creamy-milky, leather rubbed-soft, myrrh dark and bitter-balsamic, coffee adding a roasted, slightly burnt-sugar bitterness that grounds the composition. The base deepens into a temple-like resin chord — frankincense and olibanum smoky and lemony-bright, styrax sweet-balsamic and faintly leathery, sandalwood persisting underneath. Projection is generous through the first hours, then settles into a smoky-resinous skin glow that lingers all evening. The arc is slow, ritualistic, the mood unmistakably ceremonial.
Overall a smoky leather-incense oriental with coffee-resin depth.
Scent twins
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