Incident Diplomatique
Incident Diplomatique opens with the sharp brightness of mandarin quickly undercut by nutmeg — that spice arrives early and dominates the first impression rather than staying politely in the wings.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Patchouli95
- Earthy80
- Warm Spicy70
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Nutmeg
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Mandarin
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readIncident Diplomatique opens with the sharp brightness of mandarin quickly undercut by nutmeg — that spice arrives early and dominates the first impression rather than staying politely in the wings. Patchouli takes hold in the mid-development, the earthy and slightly fermented character of it pressing against the sandalwood's softer grain.
Vetiver draws the composition toward drier, more austere territory in the base. The overall effect is a dark, soil-forward oriental — dense without being sweet, with the spice threading through all stages rather than fading. This suits cooler weather and low-light occasions where projection is welcome rather than intrusive.
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.
