Atlas Fever
Atlas Fever reads as an exercise in constructive tension.
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.
- Smoky80
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Pink Pepper
- Narcissus
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readAtlas Fever reads as an exercise in constructive tension. The opener leads with incense and frankincense — two forms of the same thing, one raw and one processed, producing a doubled smokiness that pink pepper cuts with a brief metallic brightness. Narcissus occupies the heart alone: not the washed, indolic versions common in mainstream florals but something greener and more melancholic, the flower rather than the perfumer's extract.
The base assembles a quiet woody accord — guaiac wood and sandalwood both matte rather than creamy — over tonka and vanilla, keeping the drydown warm without sweetening it significantly. Subdued but persistent.
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.
