Musk Oil Black
Frankincense and olibanum open with the dry, lemony-resinous smoke of burning church incense — sharp at first, then settling into a contemplative haze.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Smoky70
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Ylang-Ylang
- Ylang-Ylang
- Myrrh
- Myrrh
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense and olibanum open with the dry, lemony-resinous smoke of burning church incense — sharp at first, then settling into a contemplative haze. Ylang-ylang threads a banana-custard warmth through the smoke, softening the austerity of the resins.
Myrrh and benzoin form the heart. Myrrh deepens the resinous quality with a slightly medicinal, bitter-balsamic edge; benzoin coats everything in a sweet, almost vanillic resin glow. The middle reads like a polished oriental incense rather than raw smoke.
Patchouli and musk anchor the base in earthy, animalic depth. Patchouli brings purple soil and a dry chocolate quality; musk softens the edges. Sweet-smoky resinous oil — meditative, dense, long-lasting on skin.
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.
