Sacreste
A black-incense tableau that opens with labdanum, saffron and cardamom braided tightly — the labdanum already warm and faintly leathery, the saffron metallic, the cardamom smoothing the edges.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Leather70
- Oud70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Labdanum
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Incense
- Black Pepper
- Frankincense
- Cypriol
By the editors · 2 min readA black-incense tableau that opens with labdanum, saffron and cardamom braided tightly — the labdanum already warm and faintly leathery, the saffron metallic, the cardamom smoothing the edges.
The heart deepens fast: frankincense and cypriol layer dry, mineral smoke over black pepper, while the cypriol contributes a damp, almost root-cellar earthiness. There is a charred-wood quality through the centre that reads as more austere than perfumed.
The base is built on guaiac wood and amber lifted by cashmeran's musky-velvet glow and a steady cedar spine. The overall impression is a sacral, smoke-and-resin composition — leathered, peppery, deeply ambered — that sits firmly in the masculine ceremonial register and projects more than it whispers.
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.
