Comme des Garcons 2
The opening is sharp and austere—a medicinal flash of incense smoke cut with bitter spice, as though someone struck a match near a mortuary cooler.
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.
- Incense90
- Labdanum70
- Cinnamon60
- Vetiver50
- Patchouli50
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is sharp and austere—a medicinal flash of incense smoke cut with bitter spice, as though someone struck a match near a mortuary cooler. There's little sweetness to soften the entry. Instead, cinnamon and nutmeg arrive not as kitchen warmth but as powdered resins, dry and faintly anesthetic. Magnolia hovers somewhere beneath, pale and waxy, never quite blooming.
As it settles, the incense thickens into something darker and more resinous. Labdanum and patchouli anchor the base with earthy weight, while vetiver adds a rootlike dryness. The amber is restrained, almost grey rather than golden. Cedar lends structure but not polish—this is wood left unvarnished, still smelling of bark and dust.
This is fragrance as architecture: minimal, cerebral, unapologetically severe. It wears like a statement rather than an accessory, best suited to those who prefer their scents skeletal and unadorned.