Ithaka
Bergamot snaps open with a cool, metallic sparkle that quickly folds into a resinous incense cloud.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Magnolia
- Frankincense
- Incense
- Cypriol
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot snaps open with a cool, metallic sparkle that quickly folds into a resinous incense cloud. Frankincense and magnolia intertwine in the heart: the citrus-like facets of magnolia lift the smoky terpenes of olibanum, creating a transparent halo rather than churchy density. As the base settles, cypriol’s dry vetiver-oud character meets patchouli’s cocoa-brown earth, while labdanum and benzoin pour a warm, treacly amber that clings to cedar shavings. The result is a luminous incense that stays close to the skin, projecting a quiet curl of sweet smoke for six hours and favoring cool evenings or contemplative travel.
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.
