Ligea (Ligea la Sirena)
Incense smoke and lavender open together, an unusual pairing that reads at once churchly and herbal — cool grey resin against blue-green stem.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Lavender
- Patchouli
- White Musk
- Madagascar Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readIncense smoke and lavender open together, an unusual pairing that reads at once churchly and herbal — cool grey resin against blue-green stem. The contrast is the hook, and it lasts a surprisingly long time before the heart settles in.
Patchouli arrives slowly, the dark earthy kind, deepening the smoke and giving it a damp floor. The base unspools into Madagascar vanilla and styrax — the vanilla creamy, the styrax adding a leathery balsamic warmth that smells like burnt honey on wood. White musk softens the seams without lifting it. The composition stays close to skin once the incense settles, glowing warm rather than projecting.
Overall a smoky-sweet balsamic with a meditative quality, low projection but long stay. Cool-weather evening, intimate spaces.
Scent twins
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