Bois d'Armenie
Bois d'Arménie opens with incense and frankincense — the aromatic resins burning on paper, smoky and spiritual without being heavy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Labdanum40
- Iris35
- Black Pepper35
- Patchouli35
By the editors · 2 min readBois d'Arménie opens with incense and frankincense — the aromatic resins burning on paper, smoky and spiritual without being heavy. Pink pepper and iris add a slightly cool, spiced floral quality to the opening, keeping it from reading as purely ecclesiastical.
Guaiac wood and benzoin in the heart are the core accord: guaiac brings a smoky, slightly rubbery wood note while benzoin offers warm, balsamic sweetness — together they replicate the feeling of that smoldering aromatic paper more than any single note could. Patchouli and white musk ground the base with earth and skin warmth. A meditation-room fragrance with surprisingly good wear — intimate and contemplative without being oppressive.
