Aedes de Venustas
Aedes de Venustas, dedicated to the Greenwich Village boutique that commissioned it, is a Duchaufour incense built around contradiction.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Patchouli65
- Leather60
- Amber50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Pink Pepper
- Orange
- Cardamom
- Black Pepper
- Frankincense
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readAedes de Venustas, dedicated to the Greenwich Village boutique that commissioned it, is a Duchaufour incense built around contradiction. Pink pepper, cardamom and orange flash bright and almost gourmand at the opening — for thirty seconds you could mistake it for a citrus fougère — before the incense and black pepper rise from underneath and reset the composition entirely.
The heart goes resinous: frankincense, cedar, iris and a quiet rose, all kept dry. The drydown is where it commits — opoponax and patchouli over a green coffee note, with leather and oakmoss giving it gravity.
The arc covers a lot of ground in a short time. It rewards close attention.
Scent twins
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