In Extremis
Galbanum slashes first, a bitter-green whip that tears through creamy sandalwood and birch tar smoke.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Earthy70
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Birch
- Galbanum
- Incense
- Magnolia
- Cumin
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum slashes first, a bitter-green whip that tears through creamy sandalwood and birch tar smoke. The heart folds magnolia's cool waxiness into incense embers while cumin's sweaty spice and osmanthus' apricot leather twist the smoke into human skin. Oakmoss and vetiver darken the base into damp earth; oud's medicinal bandage note gets lacquered by guaiac's barbecue sweetness and ambergris' salt-crusted hide. Projection arcs from campfire radius to shirt-collar intimacy over six hours; dry leather lingers on wool through cool fall nights.
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.
