Ambra
Frankincense opens with a resinous puff that quickly folds into bergamot’s bright citrus, creating a slightly smoky-amber haze rather than a crisp cologne.
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.
- Balsamic70
- Vanilla60
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Bergamot
- Patchouli
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense opens with a resinous puff that quickly folds into bergamot’s bright citrus, creating a slightly smoky-amber haze rather than a crisp cologne. Patchouli arrives early, adding an earthy backbone that keeps the incense from drifting too ethereal; its camphor edge stays present through the heart. As the base settles, tonka bean and vanilla melt together into a soft, almost almond-sweet cushion, while vetiver threads a dry, grassy smoke that stops the accord from turning gourmand. Musk swells late, lending skin-warmth that pulls the composition close to the skin within three hours. Projection drops to intimate radius after the first hour, making it office-safe yet still perceptible in autumn air. Overall character is a muted amber-incense with a clean, slightly woody tail rather than church or dessert.
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.
