Reliqvia
Reliqvia opens with an unusual declaration: smoke and tobacco arrive immediately in the top notes, alongside orange blossom and nutmeg.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Incense85
- Tobacco65
- Sandalwood55
- Patchouli45
- Orange30
By the editors · 2 min readReliqvia opens with an unusual declaration: smoke and tobacco arrive immediately in the top notes, alongside orange blossom and nutmeg. The combination is unsettling in the best sense — the sweet, honeyed white floral against the dry char of smoke reads as sacred incense, the moment before the censer is fully aflame. Filippo Sorcinelli's ecclesiastical background is apparent from the first second.
The heart deepens the sacred atmosphere: incense and frankincense build the liturgical core, guaiac wood's smoky depth compounds the register, and clove adds dry altar-warming spice. Orange blossom appears again, now surrounded by smoke and wood rather than leading, its sweetness transformed by context.
The base is a reprise and continuation: frankincense, smoke, and tobacco persist into the dry-down alongside sandalwood and patchouli, black currant offering a brief, unexpected tartness against the resinous architecture. Reliqvia does not compromise or apologize for its intensity. It is a fragrance for those who want to wear sacred ritual on their skin.
