Eau Trouble
Eau Trouble opens with incense and frankincense at full strength — resinous, slightly dry, with a churchy sharpness that carries through the early minutes without softening quickly.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- White Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Heliotrope
- Orange Blossom
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readEau Trouble opens with incense and frankincense at full strength — resinous, slightly dry, with a churchy sharpness that carries through the early minutes without softening quickly.
Heliotrope and orange blossom form the heart, their almond-tinged, powdery sweetness providing counterbalance to the smoky opening. The transition creates a distinctive tension: burnt resin meeting soft white florals.
Iris and Virginia cedar shape the base with a clean, rooty dryness, while vetiver contributes an earthy note beneath. Musk keeps the finish light rather than heavy. The powdery iris-heliotrope accord gradually takes over, leaving the incense as a background memory. A smoke-to-powder arc with a woody, slightly earthy landing.
Scent twins
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