Trompette 8
Frankincense and black pepper ignite the opening with a resinous, crackling smoke that feels almost charcoal-dusted.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Black Pepper
- Frankincense
- Labdanum
- Cedar
- Pink Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense and black pepper ignite the opening with a resinous, crackling smoke that feels almost charcoal-dusted. Cedar arrives quickly, shaving the smoke into dry wood shavings while the peppers keep a low, prickling heat underneath. The heart is brief; the cedar’s pencil-curl dust soon mingles with the returning frankincense, now quieter and waxier. Late dry-down reveals a cool bergamot skin that lifts the remaining incense, turning the earlier darkness into a pale, ash-tinted haze. Projection stays at arm’s length, more veil than cloud, and the scent clings to fabrics like church-pew wood. Cool evenings and minimalist wardrobes suit its monochrome resin best.
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.
