White Whale
White Whale opens with olibanum — dry, slightly papery, and almost transparent.
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.
- Balsamic80
- Salty50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Olibanum
- Ambergris
- Violet
- Labdanum
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readWhite Whale opens with olibanum — dry, slightly papery, and almost transparent. There is no burst of brightness here; instead, the opening reads like cool incense smoke before a room has fully warmed.
Ambergris and violet arrive together in the heart, an unusual pairing that softens the resin with a faintly salty, marine depth while the violet adds a hushed floral nuance rather than anything powdery or sharp. The interaction keeps the fragrance suspended between the oceanic and the sacred.
Labdanum and cedar close things out, anchoring the composition without overwhelming the delicacy above. The whole piece remains restrained and skin-proximate, built around spaciousness rather than density.
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.
