Santal Pondicherry
Incense opens dry and resinous, throwing a cool cedar veil that settles into a calm woody frame.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Cedar
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readIncense opens dry and resinous, throwing a cool cedar veil that settles into a calm woody frame. Saffron threads a leathery sweetness through the heart while cardamom snaps green edges against the wood, keeping the middle lifted and slightly metallic. As skin warms, sandalwood cream emerges, folding vanilla and amber into a soft, almost milky accord that blurs the earlier cedar lines. The final stage stays close, a skin-hugging wood fondant with a faint saffron glow, neither loud nor sweet. Projection remains polite, ideal for quiet offices or cool spring evenings when you want texture without announcement.
Scent twins
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