Mauna
Ginger and black pepper arrive bright and dry, immediately overtaken by frankincense and olibanum smoke.
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.
- Smoky80
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Sandalwood
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and black pepper arrive bright and dry, immediately overtaken by frankincense and olibanum smoke. The opening is church-cool rather than spicy-warm, with the resins doing most of the work within minutes.
Sandalwood and benzoin smooth the smoke into something balsamic and slightly sweet at the heart. Styrax adds a leathery, almost charred quality underneath, while tonka rounds the edges with a soft warmth.
The overall character is meditative and resinous, incense over creamy wood, with just enough pepper-spice up top to keep it from feeling solemn. Holds steady on skin for hours without much shift after the first hour.
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.
