Incensi
Bergamot and lemon open cleanly, but galbanum immediately adds a sharp, almost medicinal green tension that signals this is not a casual citrus fragrance.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Cinnamon60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Lemon
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and lemon open cleanly, but galbanum immediately adds a sharp, almost medicinal green tension that signals this is not a casual citrus fragrance. Apple rounds the top slightly before the composition pivots sharply toward smoke and resin.
Ginger and cinnamon in the heart build a dry, warm-spicy scaffold over which incense, frankincense, and myrrh construct a dense ceremonial resin core. Labdanum deepens this further, while mimosa floats a faint yellow-floral softness against the darkness. Benzoin, styrax, and opoponax in the base are so densely layered that the dry-down becomes almost indistinguishable from church incense — rich, balsamic, and long-lasting.
A serious, resinous composition that leans devotional rather than wearable.
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.
