Series 3: Incense - Zagorsk
Evelyne Boulanger's contribution to the 2002 Incense series, Zagorsk takes its name from the Russian Orthodox monastic town and reads exactly that way.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Smoky85
- Woody55
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- White Incense
- Pimento Berries
- Birch Wood
- Cedar
- Iris
- Pine
- Violet
- Hinoki Wood
By the editors · 2 min readEvelyne Boulanger's contribution to the 2002 Incense series, Zagorsk takes its name from the Russian Orthodox monastic town and reads exactly that way. The composition opens cold and resinous — pine and white incense crackling over pimento berries — with violet and iris feeding a quiet, almost ecclesiastical floralcy underneath the smoke.
What distinguishes Zagorsk from the other four cities in the set is the woody base: hinoki and birch, dry and slightly tarry, suggest old timber and beeswax candles in a cold room rather than the hotter church air of Avignon or Kyoto. Cedar threads through to keep things upright. It's austere by design — not a chilly fragrance but a fragrance about chill itself.
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.
