Mandala
From Italian niche house Masque Milano, Mandala takes its name from the sacred geometric form and constructs a fragrance to match: layered, ritualistic, meditative.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Smoky85
- Balsamic60
- Amber55
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Olibanum
- Nutmeg
- Cinnamon
- Incense
- Labdanum
- Cedar
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readFrom Italian niche house Masque Milano, Mandala takes its name from the sacred geometric form and constructs a fragrance to match: layered, ritualistic, meditative. Olibanum and nutmeg open the composition — frankincense smoke from the first moment, the nutmeg adding aromatic spice that frames the incense without domesticating it. The heart deepens the ritual: cinnamon, more incense, labdanum, cedar, and cardamom building a warm, spiced-resinous accord that references temple and meditation room.
Sandalwood, oakmoss, ambergris, and myrrh form the base — a serious, slow-burning foundation of resins and wood. Ambergris extends everything with marine-warm depth; myrrh adds dry, balsamic darkness. This is a fragrance for long wear on cold days, for those who appreciate incense-heavy orientals that move through stages of reverence rather than impulse.
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.
