Patchouli Empire
Frankincense opens with a cool, resinous sparkle that cardamom quickly warms into a peppery-green crackle, setting a dry, incense-forward tone from the first breath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Leather60
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Cardamom
- Saffron
- Suede
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense opens with a cool, resinous sparkle that cardamom quickly warms into a peppery-green crackle, setting a dry, incense-forward tone from the first breath. The heart introduces saffron’s leathery iodine edge, folding it into sueded skin so the spice feels like worn hide rather than kitchen warmth. Patchouli arrives early in the base, earthy and unsweetened, musk shearing off any residual sugar to leave a matte, forest-floor darkness that clings close. Over hours the incense recedes, letting patchouli dominate while a quiet leather-musk hum remains, projecting no farther than a forearm’s length yet persisting skin-tight well into evening. Cool-weather companion for confident casual wear, especially under scarves and coats.
Scent twins
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