Sparkling Sand
**Sparkling Sand** opens with a contradiction: cool incense smoke threaded through bright lemon zest, like morning light cutting through temple air.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Iris80
- Powdery75
- Salty70
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Lemon
- Leather
- Apricot
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min read**Sparkling Sand** opens with a contradiction: cool incense smoke threaded through bright lemon zest, like morning light cutting through temple air. The citrus fades quickly, making room for something stranger—soft leather dusted with powdered iris, warmed by a whisper of apricot that reads more as sweetness than fruit. It's oddly tactile, almost papery, the kind of leather you find in old books rather than biker jackets.
The base settles into a milky amber-vanilla blend, grounded by cedar and a clean musk that keeps everything from turning too gourmand. What remains is quietly warm, neither masculine nor feminine, with that iris-leather core holding steady underneath. The name makes sense: it captures something luminous and dry at once, like sun-heated stone or sand that catches the light. Unusual enough to feel deliberate, wearable enough for daily life.
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.
