Winners Trophy Silver
Olibanum opens with a resinous, lemon-tinged smoke that quickly folds into sweet orange zest, creating a bright-incense flash.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Olibanum
- Orange
- Lavender
- Vanilla
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readOlibanum opens with a resinous, lemon-tinged smoke that quickly folds into sweet orange zest, creating a bright-incense flash. Lavender arrives within minutes, its clean herbal spike cutting the vanilla’s creamy weight and pushing the composition toward a barbershop fougère. The vanilla never turns dessert-sweet; instead it acts like a soft-focus filter, blurring the edges between the incense residue and the aromatic heart. Vetiver surfaces late, supplying a dry grass-root bitterness that keeps the vanilla from lingering too long and tilts the skin scent slightly masculine. Projection stays at arm’s length for about six hours, then collapses into a faint woody-powder dust. Cool spring nights and air-conditioned offices suit it best; heat flattens the lavender and amplifies only the vanilla.
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.
