Santal Noble 2017
Incense and coffee open dark and resinous, the coffee adding a roasted bitterness that keeps the frankincense from turning sugary.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Coffee
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readIncense and coffee open dark and resinous, the coffee adding a roasted bitterness that keeps the frankincense from turning sugary. Sandalwood enters early, its creamy woodgrain softening the smoke while vetiver’s rooty dryness pulls the composition earthward; vanilla barely sweetens, instead acting as a binding agent for patchouli’s cocoa-brown facets. Over hours the mossy understructure gains weight: oakmoss tincture, ambergris and castoreum layer a damp-leather, almost animalic hum that clings to skin like wet bark. Projection stays within arm’s length, ideal for cool autumn evenings or a quiet library session where you want scent to whisper rather than announce.
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.
