Gardenia de
A small lift of cardamom appears at the top, more aromatic than fiery, before the resins step forward.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Balsamic85
- Smoky85
- Soft Spicy50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Myrrh
- Frankincense
- Opoponax
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readA small lift of cardamom appears at the top, more aromatic than fiery, before the resins step forward. Within minutes the focus shifts entirely to incense — myrrh, frankincense, and opoponax layered into a single dense, balsamic cloud.
The heart reads as church air with a sweet edge, the opoponax adding a honeyed warmth that softens the colder smoke of frankincense. There is no obvious gardenia signal despite the name; the construction is resin-driven throughout.
Patchouli underpins the dry-down with an earthy, slightly leathery weight. The overall impression is meditative and close-wearing, holding its smoky warmth without expanding much. Linear in feel, with the resins doing nearly all the work from start to finish.
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.
