Archetipo
Frankincense and incense open in a dry, resinous lift, pink pepper adding a quick crackle rather than warmth, and a literal smoke thread already drifting underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Mossy60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Pink Pepper
- Smoke
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense and incense open in a dry, resinous lift, pink pepper adding a quick crackle rather than warmth, and a literal smoke thread already drifting underneath.
The middle is essentially the smoke accord made central — charred, slightly tarry, with the oakmoss starting to push through as a damp-grey forest floor. Patchouli's earthy cocoa joins in, and the composition reads less perfumed than atmospheric, like the air after a fire.
Vetiver and labdanum settle into the base with a balsamic, leather-adjacent warmth that softens the smoke without removing it. The drydown stays dark and meditative for hours, with measured projection that does not crowd a room and a trail that lingers as a smoky, mossy resin close to the skin.
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.
