Rosa Gallica
Frankincense opens with a cool, mineral-green smoke that crackles against bright pink pepper, creating an incense accord that feels both church-cold and pepper-hot.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Pink Pepper
- Myrrh
- Rose
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense opens with a cool, mineral-green smoke that crackles against bright pink pepper, creating an incense accord that feels both church-cold and pepper-hot. The heart folds in myrrh resin, its bittersweet balm softening the incense while letting a dry, damascene rose bloom through the haze, turning the smoke dusty-petal rather than charred. Ambergris in the base adds a salty, skin-warm glow that lingers close, stretching the resinous rose into a translucent, beach-bonfire aura that lasts well past dusk. Projection stays polite—arm-length halo for the first two hours—then settles to intimate incense skin-scent. Best for cool spring evenings or layered under a wool collar when you want quiet, contemplative presence rather than statement.
Scent twins
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