Alheba
Incense and labdanum open with a resinous, slightly smoky presence — these are not typical top notes, and their placement at the top signals a fragrance that leads with its most assertive character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Mossy60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Labdanum
- White Musk
- Lavender
- Oakmoss
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readIncense and labdanum open with a resinous, slightly smoky presence — these are not typical top notes, and their placement at the top signals a fragrance that leads with its most assertive character.
White musk and lavender form the heart, adding a softer, more intimate dimension. Lavender's herbal-aromatic quality provides some lift against the heavy resins, while musk adds softness.
Oakmoss, ambergris, and patchouli ground the base in earthy, mossy territory. Oakmoss contributes a dry, slightly bitter green-earthy character; ambergris adds warmth and diffusion; patchouli earths the whole composition. The result is a quiet, contemplative chypre-like fragrance with a resinous opening — complex and introspective.
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.
