Followed
A pale, smoke-stained sandalwood that opens with the smell of singed paper and something faintly medicinal—benzoin, perhaps, or labdanum warmed past comfort.
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.
- Sandalwood85
- Incense60
- Vetiver40
- Amber35
- Labdanum30
By the editors · 2 min readA pale, smoke-stained sandalwood that opens with the smell of singed paper and something faintly medicinal—benzoin, perhaps, or labdanum warmed past comfort. There's bergamot somewhere in the first minutes, but it reads more like citrus pith left too long in the sun than anything bright. The whole construction feels intentionally muted, as though viewed through gauze.
As it settles, the sandalwood becomes the anchor: dry, slightly woody-sweet, with that particular dustiness of incense ash rather than burning incense. A thread of vetiver keeps it from going soft. The name suggests surveillance or pursuit, and there is something watchful about it—restrained, close to the skin, made for someone who doesn't want to announce their presence.
Not a crowd-pleaser. This is sandalwood for people who find most sandalwood fragrances too polished, too eager to charm. It lingers like the smell of old books in a room where someone once burned letters.
