Mélodie de L'Altaï
Frankincense and saffron announce themselves immediately — resinous and metallic, with a dry smokiness that sets a serious tone from the first spray.
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.
- Leather90
- Smoky80
- Balsamic70
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Saffron
- Leather
- Styrax
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense and saffron announce themselves immediately — resinous and metallic, with a dry smokiness that sets a serious tone from the first spray. The opening is dense and deliberate.
Leather and styrax in the heart deepen the incense quality, adding a rubbery, slightly sweet darkness. The styrax fuses with leather into something reminiscent of worn suede near an open fire, with benzoin beginning to soften the edges toward the base.
Tonka bean, vetiver, and patchouli in the base add earthiness and a quiet sweetness beneath the smoke and resin. The finish is long, dry, and woody-balsamic. A cold-weather fragrance built for evening wear.
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.
