Monsieur.
Frankincense dominates the opening, releasing a cool, citrus-tinged resin that feels both crisp and slightly metallic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Leather80
- Woody60
- Vanilla50
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Vanilla
- Saffron
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Suede
- Mandarin
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense dominates the opening, releasing a cool, citrus-tinged resin that feels both crisp and slightly metallic. Mandarin peel oils add a brief sparkle before the heart thickens with saffron, its leathery iodide nuance tinting the resins a dusty crimson. Vanilla arrives early but stays low, rounding edges rather than adding sugar; cedar keeps the structure dry and upright while patchouli contributes a muted cocoa earthiness that anchors the incense. Suede surfaces in the dry-down, a matte leather that absorbs the remaining resins and musk, creating a soft, paper-thin skin fixture that smells like worn travel gloves stored in an old wooden box. Projection stays at arm’s length for most of the wear, making it office-friendly yet quietly distinctive through cooler months.
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.
