Secret Mystiques
Myrrh dominates the opening, releasing a resinous, slightly medicinal smoke that clings to cedar's dry pencil-shavings texture.
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.
- Smoky80
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Myrrh
- Virginia Cedar
- Guaiac Wood
- Saffron
- Ambergris
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readMyrrh dominates the opening, releasing a resinous, slightly medicinal smoke that clings to cedar's dry pencil-shavings texture. The heart layers guaiac's tarry, campfire wood against saffron's leathery, hay-like spice, amplifying the incense theme while adding a bittersweet glow. Ambergris creeps in early, its salty, skin-warmth lifting the woods and preventing them from turning too austere, while labdanum doubles down on sweet, ambered resin and patchouli supplies a dark, loamy earth anchor. Over hours the fragrance folds into a chewy, bittersweet amber-patchouli blanket with lingering cedar splinters and a subtle marine breeze from the ambergris. Projection stays within arm's length for most of the wear, projecting best in cool weather and low-light evening settings where its smoky resin aura reads intimate rather than loud.
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.
