Barbier des Isles
Bergamot and lemon crackle open with a bright, sunlit citrus flash that quickly picks up a resinous bite from frankincense rising beneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Jasmine
- Frankincense
- Clove
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and lemon crackle open with a bright, sunlit citrus flash that quickly picks up a resinous bite from frankincense rising beneath. The heart layers jasmine’s sweet creaminess over clove and cardamom, turning the incense accord warm, almost honeyed, while smoke remains airy rather than dense. Rosewood steadies the transition, its pink-hued timber softening spice into a smooth woody glow. Vetiver and patchouli in the base tilt the embers earthward, grounding the resins in dry, rooty bitterness that lingers close to skin. Myrrh adds a faint medicinal twilight that keeps musk from going too clean. Projection stays polite, a resinous woody veil ideal for cool spring evenings or quiet fall offices where incense smoke meets pencil shavings rather than cathedral clouds.
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.
