Tribute
Frankincense and saffron open in a register that is simultaneously smoky-resinous and metallic-golden.
Have an image for this perfume? Sign in to contribute →
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Leather70
- Tobacco60
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Saffron
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Leather
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense and saffron open in a register that is simultaneously smoky-resinous and metallic-golden. The saffron is bright and slightly sharp; the frankincense adds a churchlike, meditative quality. Together they set a tone of deliberate seriousness.
Jasmine in the heart brings a floral lift without softening the overall dark character — it reads as white floral under smoke rather than as a traditional floral heart. Patchouli adds depth and earthiness, reinforcing the oriental direction.
Leather, vetiver, cedar, and tobacco arrive in the base to complete the composition. This is a dry, smoky-leather oriental with resinous top notes and an earthy, woody finish. Tobacco adds a slight sweetness to the drydown without lightening it. Complex, dark, and persistent.
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.