Aqua Wood
Opens with juicy pear softened by ginger's dry heat, the opening brighter than the rest of the composition will suggest.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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
- Smoky80
- Musky70
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Ginger
- Patchouli
- White Musk
- Incense
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with juicy pear softened by ginger's dry heat, the opening brighter than the rest of the composition will suggest. The middle is where Aqua Wood declares itself — patchouli's dark-earth pull wrapped in frankincense smoke and benzoin's warm vanillic sweetness. The "Aqua" naming is misleading; there is no marine character here.
The drydown is the Mancera signature — long-wearing white musk cushioning a persistent amber-incense heart that stays close to skin but projects steadily for hours. It reads better in cool weather than hot, where the resins bloom rather than cloy, and suits an evening out or a long winter afternoon.
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.
