L'Incenso
Black pepper crackles in the opening, scattering dry sparks that quickly sink into a thick resinous core where incense dominates, its ash-grey tendrils braided with labdanum’s honeyed leather and styrax’s bitter-balsamic bite.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Smoky90
- Woody70
- Balsamic60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Incense
- Labdanum
- Styrax
- Guaiac Wood
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles in the opening, scattering dry sparks that quickly sink into a thick resinous core where incense dominates, its ash-grey tendrils braided with labdanum’s honeyed leather and styrax’s bitter-balsamic bite. The heart stays smoky but gains weight as guaiac wood’s tarry sweetness steadies the plume while patchouli pushes a camphored-earth undertone that keeps the resins from sagging into syrup. Over two hours the pepper recedes, leaving a monochrome ember of incense-laced woods that clings close to skin, exhaling a cold-chapel dustiness rather than churchy opulence. Projection stays reserved, a low haze rather than a trail, yet the weave persists seven-to-nine hours on fabric, quietly scenting scarf or coat lining. Cool autumn evenings, smart-casual offices or gallery openings fit its restrained smoke signal best.
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.
