Shanaan
Shanaan opens cool and dry — petitgrain over lemon — before turning quickly toward smoke.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Amber90
- Patchouli55
- Salty25
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lemon
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readShanaan opens cool and dry — petitgrain over lemon — before turning quickly toward smoke. Frankincense and incense rise together, and cedar gives the resinous core a vertical, almost architectural feel. There's a moment where the citrus and the smoke share the air, neither dominating, that reads as ceremonial rather than gourmand.
The drydown belongs to amber and labdanum: warm, sweet-balsamic, with ambergris adding a salty mineral facet that keeps the whole thing from going syrupy. Musk closes it. This is a fragrance for cold weather and quiet rooms, the kind that smells most like itself an hour in.
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.
