Nero Incenso
Incense dominates from the first spray, a dry frankincense that swallows the brief orange and bergamot flash, turning the citrus into a sour, smoky haze within minutes.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Smoky100
- Woody70
- Aromatic40
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Basil
- Basil
By the editors · 2 min readIncense dominates from the first spray, a dry frankincense that swallows the brief orange and bergamot flash, turning the citrus into a sour, smoky haze within minutes. The heart adds basil’s cool, pepper-green edge, sharpening the resin rather than softening it, while rosewood quietly warms the woods beneath the smoke. As it settles, the incense doubles down: no vanilla, no amber, just cold cathedral embers and splintery wood that stays sheer rather than creamy. Projection remains close but persistent, a skin-level church pew scent that lasts office hours yet never shouts. Best worn in cool weather, under layers, when you want quiet, meditative smoke without sweetness.
Scent twins
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