Fougère Classique
Frankincense opens dry and resinous, immediately throwing a cool church-incense veil over bright pink pepper sparks that crackle for ten minutes before subsiding.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Mossy90
- Woody60
- Patchouli60
- Green
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Pink Pepper
- Oakmoss
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense opens dry and resinous, immediately throwing a cool church-incense veil over bright pink pepper sparks that crackle for ten minutes before subsiding. The heart is skipped; instead the resin sinks straight into a base where labdanum’s molten leather facets fuse with patchouli’s chocolate-earth, while oakmoss lays down a bitter green carpet that keeps the amber from turning sweet. Over hours the incense softens to a skin-trail of dusty woods, moss and softly musky rock-rose, projecting no farther than handshake distance yet lasting deep into the evening. Cool-weather companion for tailored wool or a tweed blazer; office-safe because it stays close and smells like old wood panels rather than perfume.
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.
