Othello
Incense rolls out first, dry and papery, then birch tar streaks it with campfire soot while patchouli adds a cocoa-dark earthiness that keeps the smoke grounded.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Oud70
- Honey50
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Birch
- Patchouli
- Oud
- Honey
- Ivy
By the editors · 2 min readIncense rolls out first, dry and papery, then birch tar streaks it with campfire soot while patchouli adds a cocoa-dark earthiness that keeps the smoke grounded. Honey soon seeps through the embers, turning the ash into a candied leather that clings to skin like burnt caramel. Oud arrives late, rubbery and medicinal, yet the ivy’s green snap lifts the heaviness, letting the scent breathe without ever going fresh. Over hours the birch softens into a sweet tarry skin-print that projects arm-length yet feels private, perfect for cool evenings when you want to smell like you’ve been tending a bonfire made of old books and honeycomb.
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.
