Incense & Cedrat
The cedrat — a large, thick-skinned citrus from Corsica — opens with tart, almost waxy brightness, accompanied by a thread of pepper that sharpens the air.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Smoky80
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lemon
- Elemi Resin
- Incense
- Vetiver
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readThe cedrat — a large, thick-skinned citrus from Corsica — opens with tart, almost waxy brightness, accompanied by a thread of pepper that sharpens the air. The transition into incense is direct: elemi resin and frankincense create a dry, slightly smoky quality that doesn't cling to any one religious tradition.
The base of labdanum, benzoin, vetiver, and patchouli settles into a resinous warmth that reads as ancient without being heavy. This is a composed, austere fragrance — more ritual than hedonism, suited to cool weather and considered company.
Scent twins
In this family
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