Faux Semblant
Olibanum opens with a cool, lemon-tinged resin that feels like crushed frankincense tears, quickly sweetened by honey’s thick pollen weight.
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.
- Honey50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Olibanum
- Amber
- Orange Blossom
- Honey
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readOlibanum opens with a cool, lemon-tinged resin that feels like crushed frankincense tears, quickly sweetened by honey’s thick pollen weight. In the heart, orange blossom adds a clean, soapy floral lift that keeps the honey from turning cloying, while patchouli’s earthy cocoa edge anchors the amber glow that follows. The accord stays luminous rather than syrupy: the incense sheen hovers above skin, amber radiates soft caramel warmth, and patchouli leaves a quiet cocoa-powder trail that lasts through the afternoon. Projection stays polite, a one-foot halo perfect for office or close-quarter travel; the resin-honey tandem reads brightest in cool fall air or an air-conditioned summer evening when you want comfort without sugar overload.
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.
