Ganja
Black pepper and cumin open with a dry, dense spiciness — the cumin is earthy and body-close, the pepper sharp and cutting.
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.
- Earthy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cumin
- Guaiac Wood
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Patchouli
- Black Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and cumin open with a dry, dense spiciness — the cumin is earthy and body-close, the pepper sharp and cutting. Together they establish a profile that is deliberately abrasive.
The heart is absent in the listed structure, so guaiac wood and frankincense carry the mid-stage. Guaiac brings a smoky, slightly rubbery wood note; frankincense lifts it with cool resinous smoke. Patchouli runs throughout, adding earthy depth and weight.
The dry-down is persistently woody, smoky, and earthy, with incense and patchouli intertwined. There is no sweetness to soften the finish. This reads as a deliberate exercise in austere, resinous minimalism.
Scent twins
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