Carmen
Incense opens dry and papery, its ash-grey plume sharpened by pink pepper’s metallic sparkle while bergamot supplies a brief citric glare that soon evaporates.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Labdanum
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readIncense opens dry and papery, its ash-grey plume sharpened by pink pepper’s metallic sparkle while bergamot supplies a brief citric glare that soon evaporates. The heart fattens as tonka bean’s almond-like sweetness marries labdanum’s leathery amber, turning the smoke creamy and almost edible. Sandalwood arrives first in the base, adding a butter-smooth wood veneer before vanilla folds it into a soft, slightly caramelised skin-scent blanket and musk keeps the structure hovering just above the body. During the first hour the projection is moderate, a translucent resinous cloud; by hour four it collapses to a close, sweet-wood ember that lasts through an office day yet never shouts. Cool autumn evenings and smart-casual dinners fit its quiet smoulder 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.
