Tobacco Sapphire
Incense and frankincense open with a smoky, church-like resinous quality, while cumin adds a warm, slightly animalic spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Smoky80
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Cumin
- Frankincense
- Saffron
- Magnolia
- Heliotrope
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readIncense and frankincense open with a smoky, church-like resinous quality, while cumin adds a warm, slightly animalic spice. Saffron provides a metallic golden warmth that transitions into the floral heart. Magnolia and rose offer a creamy floral counterpoint to the spices, with heliotrope adding a powdery almond nuance. The base is richly complex with sandalwood and guaiac wood's creaminess, labdanum and benzoin's balsamic sweetness, and tobacco's dry leafy character. Patchouli adds earthy depth while musk provides a skin-scent foundation. This evolves significantly over hours into a smoky, balsamic tobacco dry-down. Best for formal evening wear in cold weather.
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.
