The Joss Flower
Frankincense opens The Joss Flower with a cool, mineral-green smokiness that pink pepper and nutmeg quickly warm into a resinous glow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Pink Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Gardenia
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peach
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense opens The Joss Flower with a cool, mineral-green smokiness that pink pepper and nutmeg quickly warm into a resinous glow. Gardenia and ylang-ylang bloom together, their creamy petals cushioned by iris powder and a fleshy peach skin accord that keeps the white bouquet from turning too clean. As the incense smoke drifts downward, sandalwood’s dry milk meets amber’s labdanum thickness, while patchouli adds a muted cocoa-earth anchor that stops the composition floating away. The peach note lingers longest, turning the late dry-down into a softly lactonic skin veil rather than a churchy censer. Projection stays polite—arm’s length for four hours—then settles to a resin-peach haze best worn in cool spring evenings or layered linen fall days. Complexity is moderate; the heart accord is stable, so the pleasure is in watching incense thin and peach sweeten rather than sudden pivots.
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.
