Hit the Mark
Incense opens cool and resinous, immediately cut by spearmint that strips away any church associations and leaves a clean, almost metallic edge.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Smoky80
- Woody70
- Amber60
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Mint
- Jasmine
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readIncense opens cool and resinous, immediately cut by spearmint that strips away any church associations and leaves a clean, almost metallic edge. Jasmine enters next, adding a faintly indolic white-flower lift that hovers above the cedar heart rather than sweetening it; the wood stays dry, splintery, more pencil shavings than forest. Patchouli arrives with earth and cocoa dust, anchoring the incense smoke so the composition tilts dark without ever becoming heavy. Labdanum and benzoin in the base re-warm the incense, while vanilla rounds the edges, turning the earlier chill into a soft, leathery amber that lingers close to skin. Projection stays polite, a low woody haze perfect for office days when you still want something interesting under the radar.
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.