November No 11
Frankincense and cardamom open with a cool resinous lift, iris adding a powdery silver-grey hush behind them.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Smoky60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Cardamom
- Iris
- Heliotrope
- Cedar
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense and cardamom open with a cool resinous lift, iris adding a powdery silver-grey hush behind them. The entry is meditative rather than bright, more about texture than energy.
Heliotrope and cedar develop the powdery thread, heliotrope contributing an almond-vanilla softness while cedar lends a clean dry-wood structure. The composition stays quiet here, the powdery facet doing most of the work.
The base brings tonka bean, more frankincense, benzoin, and chocolate into focus. Chocolate is the surprise — bittersweet rather than gourmand, blending with benzoin's caramelized resin and tonka's nutty warmth. The smoky incense returns, weaving through it all. Overall it reads as a cool-weather contemplative scent, powdery and slightly cocoa-tinged, with quiet smoke at its edges.
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.
