Terre Initiale
Incense rises first, dry and papery, scattering cedar splinters that smell like pencil shavings warmed under glass.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Smoky60
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readIncense rises first, dry and papery, scattering cedar splinters that smell like pencil shavings warmed under glass. Patchouli follows within minutes, not the syrupy dark kind but a clean, crumbly earth that absorbs the cedar’s sweetness and gives the smoke something mineral to cling to. The trio holds almost linear: cedar keeps the incense airborne, patchouli anchors it to skin, and the smoke folds back on itself, creating a quiet, grey-looping haze that feels meditative rather than churchy. There is no citrus lift or amber cushion, so the wear stays spare, cool, and lightly dusty, as if you carried the memory of a stone chapel’s air on your sleeve. Projection remains close, a skin-radius veil that endures around six hours, perfect for cool rainy days or an office where you want contemplative calm without announcing leather or spice.
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.




