Aesthete
Incense and frankincense create a smoky aromatic opening, deepened by saffron's warm-spicy leathery nuance.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Saffron
- Leather
- Oud
- Guaiac Wood
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readIncense and frankincense create a smoky aromatic opening, deepened by saffron's warm-spicy leathery nuance. Leather and oud dominate the heart with a animalic, woody character, supported by guaiac wood's smokiness. Jasmine adds a faint floral contrast to the dark base of sandalwood, vanilla, and white musk. The dry-down is a smooth woody-musky accord with vanilla sweetness balancing the animalic notes. Evolution is significant, moving from smoky-spicy to a softened leathery-woody finish. Projection is strong initially, settling to moderate sillage, best for formal evenings in cool weather.
Scent twins
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