Rouge Santal
Incense opens dry and papery, scattering grey smoke across the first minutes before sandalwood arrives with its creamy, milk-pale wood.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Sandalwood
- Moss
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readIncense opens dry and papery, scattering grey smoke across the first minutes before sandalwood arrives with its creamy, milk-pale wood. The heart folds that incense into a warm, grain-rich sandal-core that feels simultaneously polished and faintly salted. Cedar follows, sharpening the wood with thin pencil-shaving facets while oakmoss spreads a cool, green-filtered shadow underneath, turning the blend drier and more vertical. Over hours the development stays linear: the incense recedes but never vanishes, leaving a quiet ember glow against skin as moss and cedar dominate the late dry-down. Projection sits within arm’s length for most of wear, making it office-safe yet quietly resinous, happiest when autumn air can coax out the mossy cedar base.
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.
