No 10
Olibanum opens with a dry, resinous crackle that is immediately sweetened by saffron’s hay-like warmth and nutmeg’s soft spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Olibanum
- Saffron
- Nutmeg
- Myrrh
- Amber
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readOlibanum opens with a dry, resinous crackle that is immediately sweetened by saffron’s hay-like warmth and nutmeg’s soft spice. The heart folds in myrrh’s darker, slightly medicinal incense, letting the amber accord swell and round the edges without turning syrupy. In the base, sandalwood’s creamy wood steadies the sharper patchouli while labdanum and vanilla create a muted caramel backdrop; a quiet leather thread runs underneath, keeping the composition taut rather than plush. Wear time reveals musk softening the incense smoke so that late hours smell like skin warmed by old wooden cabinets rather than church censer. Projection stays within arm’s length for most of the day, making it an easy cold-weather office or travel companion that reads polished rather than overtly exotic.
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.
