No 6
Olibanum opens dry and lemony, its resinous sparkle quickly folded into a supple leather that carries a waxy, suede-like grain.
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
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Olibanum
- Leather
- Labdanum
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readOlibanum opens dry and lemony, its resinous sparkle quickly folded into a supple leather that carries a waxy, suede-like grain. Labdanum adds a caramelised amber thickness, bridging the incense smoke to the darker woods below. Cedar emerges first in the base, clean and pencil-shaving crisp, before patchouli’s cocoa-earth darkness muffles the incense and musk softens the leather edges into a skin-close veil. Over five hours the scent loses its bright resin lift and settles into a quiet, tobacco-coloured leather with a cedar-patched shadow, never loud but steadily present. Moderate sillage sits at arm’s length; wear it in cool autumn air or an unheated cinema.
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.
