Gold Incense
Bergamot opens cleanly but cinnamon arrives almost immediately, dry and slightly sweet, setting a warm-spice direction from the first minutes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Smoky85
- Cinnamon70
- Vanilla70
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Bergamot
- Labdanum
- Cedar
- Atlas Cedar
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens cleanly but cinnamon arrives almost immediately, dry and slightly sweet, setting a warm-spice direction from the first minutes. The heart builds resin: labdanum's sticky-sweet darkness anchored by two grades of cedar, dry and woody, holding the composition upright.
The base is church and pastry at once — frankincense and incense smoke laced with two doses of vanilla, sandalwood keeping everything still. The cumulative effect is cathedral-warm, candlelit, dense without being heavy. A cool-weather scent, evening-leaning, suited to indoor settings where its smoke can layer into fabric and fade slowly.
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.
