Citizen X
The opening reads cool and church-bright, frankincense and olibanum lifting smoke off the skin almost immediately while iris adds a powdery silver edge underneath.
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.
- Smoky70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Iris
- Amberwood
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Musk
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening reads cool and church-bright, frankincense and olibanum lifting smoke off the skin almost immediately while iris adds a powdery silver edge underneath.
The development is quiet rather than pyrotechnic; iris stays the central note, dry and slightly metallic, framed by amberwood that adds a warm mineral hum. Musk keeps the whole thing close and a little austere, never pushing toward sweetness or floral fullness.
Overall the composition is a smoky-iris meditation, balsamic at the edges and dignified rather than seductive. It works as a quietly formal companion for cool-weather wear, projecting modestly and fading into a skin-warm resin glow that holds for hours.
Scent twins
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