Gold Incense
Gold Incense opens with smoke and a small jolt of coffee — the coffee note isn't a gourmand wink, it's there to cut the incense and pink pepper, giving the top a bitter edge.
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.
- Rose55
- Patchouli55
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Pink Pepper
- Coffee
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGold Incense opens with smoke and a small jolt of coffee — the coffee note isn't a gourmand wink, it's there to cut the incense and pink pepper, giving the top a bitter edge. That bitterness is the whole point of the first half hour.
The heart is more conventional: rose and jasmine threaded through patchouli and a quiet violet. The composition softens once benzoin and vanilla arrive, but the smoke never fully retreats. White musk closes it out — long-wearing and slightly dusty, with the kind of aura that registers in cold air. Closer to a 'parfum sacré' template than to dessert. Fall and winter; evening, formal.
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.
