September Morn
Incense opens first, dry and papery, riding a bright grapefruit zip that keeps the smoke airborne rather than churchy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readIncense opens first, dry and papery, riding a bright grapefruit zip that keeps the smoke airborne rather than churchy. Vetiver and cedar arrive quickly, splitting the difference: the rooty grass pulls the incense downward while the sawdust cedar lifts it, creating a suspended ember effect. Patchouli thickens the heart with a cocoa-brown earthiness that lets the leather base emerge already softened, so the hide never screams. In the dry-down the amber glows quietly, warming the remaining cedar and leather into a skin-close haze that smells like gloves left near a dying campfire. Projection stays polite—arm’s-length radius for six hours—making it office-safe yet still recognizably smoky. Cool fall days and smart-casual settings fit best.
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.