The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Olibanum
- Opoponax
- Bergamot
- Black Pepper
- Olibanum
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readOlibanum opens dry and lemon-peel bright, sharpened by bergamot that shears off any churchy sweetness within seconds. The heart layers cracked black pepper over returning olibanum and a dusting of nutmeg, turning the incense brittle and almost carbon-like while keeping the profile airborne rather than resinous. As the spices evaporate, sandalwood and guaiac wood emerge with a clean, pencil-shaving grain that is quietly sweetened by myrrh and anchored by a rooty, cool vetiver; cedar keeps the structure crisp so the base never sags into syrup. Smoke stays dominant through the wear, yet the composition remains sheer, projecting two feet for six hours before collapsing into a papery skin scent of sandalwood and cooled ash. Cool evenings, outdoor concerts, fall through winter; moderate complexity rewards attention without demanding ceremony.
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.