Shamsin
Jasmine and narcissus launch bright, waxy petals that feel almost sun-warmed against cool olibanum, the resin tightening the white florals into a crisp incense veil.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Narcissus
- Olibanum
- Labdanum
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readJasmine and narcissus launch bright, waxy petals that feel almost sun-warmed against cool olibanum, the resin tightening the white florals into a crisp incense veil. Iris soon arrives, its starchy powder sheathing rose so the flower reads matte rather than jammy, while labdanum smokes quietly underneath, bridging floral brightness to the sweet, leathery base. Vanilla swells first, cedar keeps it dry, patchouli adds cocoa-brown earth, and musk blurs edges so the late dry-down feels like incense dust settled on skin. Projection stays polite, a skin-to-arm’s-length aura that favors cool evenings and layered fall wardrobes.
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.
