Blue Encens
Blue Encens announces itself with aromatic artemisia—bitter, herbal, and slightly medicinal—before spice takes over: cardamom and black pepper arrive in parallel, with cinnamon adding a warmer register beneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Smoky70
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Cinnamon
- Incense
- Aromatic Artemisia
- Black Pepper
- Amber
- Indian Cardamom
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readBlue Encens announces itself with aromatic artemisia—bitter, herbal, and slightly medicinal—before spice takes over: cardamom and black pepper arrive in parallel, with cinnamon adding a warmer register beneath. The opening is dry and assertive.
The fragrance is largely linear. Incense builds steadily from the first minutes without erupting, and by the midpoint it dominates. This is incense without sweetness or sentimentality—mineral, cool, and austere, closer to stone church than warm temple.
Amber enters the base as a mineralic rather than sweet note, extending the composition's cool blue character into the dry-down. One of three flacons in the Blue Invasion collection by perfumer Evelyne Boulanger. Wears close to skin; projects quietly.
Scent twins
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