Noble Cedar
Noble Cedar begins with a cool, slightly medicinal birch note before sage takes over in the heart — both common and clary sage together creating a sharp, camphorous green herbal presence that dominates the early development.
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.
- Balsamic60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Birch
- Sage
- Clary Sage
- Vetiver
- Frankincense
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readNoble Cedar begins with a cool, slightly medicinal birch note before sage takes over in the heart — both common and clary sage together creating a sharp, camphorous green herbal presence that dominates the early development.
Frankincense and labdanum arrive in the base, adding incense smoke and a dark resinous sweetness. Virginia cedar provides structure beneath the resin, lending a dry, pencil-shaving woodiness. The combination of labdanum and frankincense gives the base a distinctly balsamic, almost ecclesiastical quality.
Overall, Noble Cedar is an austere aromatic fragrance — herbal and smoky in turns, with a resinous depth that firms up considerably in the dry-down. Not a crowd-pleaser; deliberate and dry.
Scent twins
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