Gateau Blackout
Incense opens with a dry, smoky character that feels almost liturgical in its austerity.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Smoky70
- Vanilla60
- White Floral40
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Jasmine
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readIncense opens with a dry, smoky character that feels almost liturgical in its austerity. Jasmine cuts through with a floral sweetness that tempers the smoke without erasing it. Vanilla emerges in the base, adding a creamy warmth that blends with clean musk. The dry-down becomes a soft, slightly powdery fusion of resinous vanilla and faint floral traces. Projection is moderate initially but recedes to skin level within ninety minutes. Longevity is average, lasting around six hours in total. This scent suits evening wear in cooler weather, offering a contemplative and slightly somber aura.
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.
