Eau des Iles
Tarragon opens bitter-green, its anise edge slicing through a resinous myrrh haze that already carries church-whiff incense.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Myrrh
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Labdanum
- Ylang-Ylang
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readTarragon opens bitter-green, its anise edge slicing through a resinous myrrh haze that already carries church-whiff incense. The heart layers frankincense and labdanum into a sticky, smoky amber mass, while ylang-ylang injects a fatty banana sweetness that keeps the censer from turning acrid; a dark-roast coffee note adds roasted depth without gourmand sugar. Vetiver and patchouli in the base split the difference earth smokes: vetiver throws dry grass sparks, patchouli brings loamy chocolate, both anchored by galbanum’s bitter snap that drags the resin cloud back toward crushed leaves. Over hours the incense relaxes into a skin-close ember of vetiver-root and cooled coffee grounds, still haloed by quiet myrrh. Projection stays moderate, sillage a personal resin veil best for cool fall days or moody spring twilight.
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.
