Kalimantan
Kalimantan opens with bergamot cutting through rosemary and thyme — the herbal freshness is sharp at first but brief, giving way quickly to the core of the composition.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Rosemary
- Thyme
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readKalimantan opens with bergamot cutting through rosemary and thyme — the herbal freshness is sharp at first but brief, giving way quickly to the core of the composition.
Incense and patchouli form the backbone of the heart, with patchouli staying earthy rather than sweet. Styrax and benzoin push the base toward a warm, resinous density, while Virginia cedar anchors the whole structure with dry wood. The sandalwood in the base smooths these heavier materials into something more cohesive. Vanilla from the general list adds a faint, barely-there sweetness that keeps the resin from feeling austere.
The overall effect is a smoky, balsamic composition that runs dark and dry, with herbal brightness only at the very start.
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.
