Incense Oud
Pink pepper and cardamom open dry and faceted, with grapefruit lending a brief, almost metallic citrus bite that sharpens the spice rather than softening it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Rose
- Patchouli
- Papyrus
- Grapefruit
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and cardamom open dry and faceted, with grapefruit lending a brief, almost metallic citrus bite that sharpens the spice rather than softening it. Rose threads through the top as well, slightly peppery itself, blurring the line between top and heart.
The heart turns to patchouli and papyrus — earthy and ink-dry, the papyrus contributing a paper-and-stone texture that the perfume's name promises. By the drydown, frankincense and labdanum take over: smoky, balsamic, slightly church-cool, with sandalwood and oakmoss giving the base a chypre-leaning architecture. Musk smooths the seams. A genuinely layered composition that wears with weight in cold air, intimate against skin, slowly revealing its structure over hours.
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.
