Royal Luban
Gardenia, olibanum and saffron open in an unusual stack — the gardenia creamy and slightly fungal, the frankincense already dry and resinous, the saffron lending a leathery glow.
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.
- Floral55
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Olibanum
- Saffron
- Gardenia
- Labdanum
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia, olibanum and saffron open in an unusual stack — the gardenia creamy and slightly fungal, the frankincense already dry and resinous, the saffron lending a leathery glow. The opening reads ceremonial.
Gardenia continues into the heart, joined by labdanum, which thickens the floral with sweet amber-resin warmth. The middle is short and dense, with the floral and resin fused rather than alternating. There is no fruit or spice to widen the picture.
Vetiver and patchouli close the composition out — earthy, slightly damp, mostly structural. The drydown reads quiet and meditative rather than projecting. Overall the arc is a resinous-floral-woody attar, restrained, slow, with frankincense doing most of the personality work.
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.
