Rien Intense Incense
Rien Intense Incense opens with a burst of aldehydes that feels almost surgical—bright, metallic, cutting through the air before the incense arrives.
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.
- Smoky85
- Woody50
- Amber50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Oakmoss
- Leather
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readRien Intense Incense opens with a burst of aldehydes that feels almost surgical—bright, metallic, cutting through the air before the incense arrives. This is not gentle temple smoke but something starker, closer to burnt resin scraped from a censer, edged with pepper and cumin that bring an almost feral warmth. The leather underneath is dry and austere rather than animalic, more saddle than skin.
As it settles, oakmoss and labdanum anchor the composition in something darker and more brooding. The incense never sweetens or softens into amber; it maintains a deliberate severity. There's a coldness to it, a refusal to comfort, that sets it apart from incense fragrances that lean contemplative or devotional.
This is for those who want incense stripped of mysticism—rawer, more confrontational. It wears close and intense, living up to its name without resorting to volume. A winter scent for solitary evenings, best suited to someone uninterested in being liked.
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.
