Saga of the Silk Road
Incense and myrrh open dry and mineral, pepper crackling like singed paper across their resinous backbone.
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.
- Smoky90
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Black Pepper
- Myrrh
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readIncense and myrrh open dry and mineral, pepper crackling like singed paper across their resinous backbone. The heart is skipped, letting the smoke-laced top settle directly onto pale sandalwood streaked with ambergris, so the wood stays cool while the salt lifts residual incense into a quiet, grey haze. Wear it for two hours and it hovers close, a skin-embracing curl of pilgrimage dust and sun-bleached timber that feels built for arid climates and contemplative moods rather than statement entrances.
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.