Amber Essence
Frankincense opens dry and resinous, immediately setting a solemn church-bench tone that the cedar soon warms with clean pencil-shavings wood.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Smoky60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Virginia Cedar
- Nutmeg
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense opens dry and resinous, immediately setting a solemn church-bench tone that the cedar soon warms with clean pencil-shavings wood. Nutmeg slips into the gap, dusting the incense with a soft brown-spice heat that keeps the heart from turning too austere. As skin warms, labdanum-rich amber rises, pulling the frankincense into a honeyed, leathery glow while patchouli lays down a cool, loamy floor that muffles projection. The dry-down stays resin-forward but now cushioned by skin-hugging musk, so what began ecclesiastical ends quietly sensual, a skin-amber rather than a room-filler. Sillage stays within arm’s length for about six hours; cool autumn evenings or smart-casual offices suit its restrained incense aura.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
