Luci ed Ombre
A clean smoky incense opening sets a contemplative tone immediately, with no citrus or bright lift to soften the resin from the first minute.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Tuberose50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Ginger
- Moss
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readA clean smoky incense opening sets a contemplative tone immediately, with no citrus or bright lift to soften the resin from the first minute.
The heart introduces an unusual pairing: tuberose's narcotic creamy white-floral richness braided with ginger's rooty heat and moss's damp earthy thread, jasmine adding a quieter floral curve. The tuberose-incense pairing gives the middle a haunted, slightly funereal character, dense and almost theatrical.
The drydown is olibanum, cedar, and patchouli braided into a smoky-woody-earthy close, the olibanum extending the incense thread and the patchouli adding a balsamic depth. The overall reading is a smoky tuberose with an incense-and-moss underside, dramatic and slightly austere. Projection moderate, longevity good, suited to cool-weather evening wear and contemplative contexts.
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.
