Botafumeiro
Botafumeiro takes its name from the giant incense thurible at Santiago de Compostela — that copper-plated vessel the size of a man, swinging on an eighty-meter wire through billowing smoke.
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.
- Incense75
- Bergamot55
- Musk55
- Black Pepper50
- Sandalwood35
By the editors · 2 min readBotafumeiro takes its name from the giant incense thurible at Santiago de Compostela — that copper-plated vessel the size of a man, swinging on an eighty-meter wire through billowing smoke. The fragrance earns the reference. Pink pepper and bergamot open with a snappy brightness before lily of the valley and freesia step in, fresh-faced and slightly naive.
The base is where the name lands: incense and styrax settle into a resiny, smoky warmth cut with patchouli and sandalwood. It smells ceremonial without being solemn — more cool church stone than high-mass smoke. Clean skin, incense, and a handful of white flowers. Unisex in the most self-evident sense.
