Silky Sandalwood
Incense opens dry and papery, scattering pink pepper sparks that prickle the nose for twenty minutes before they fade.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Pink Pepper
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
- Myrrh
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readIncense opens dry and papery, scattering pink pepper sparks that prickle the nose for twenty minutes before they fade. Sandalwood arrives early, creamy and blond, threaded with cedar’s razor-clean grain to keep the wood from turning buttery. Myrrh seeps up slowly, its bittersweet resin darkening the sandalwood like ink dropped in milk, while amber forms a soft, honeyed glow that cushions the smoke rather than amplifying it. The scent stays close to the body, projecting no farther than a shirt collar, yet the resin-wood accord lingers eight hours on fabric. Cool evenings and smart-casual offices suit its quiet resinous skin scent best.
Scent twins
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