Narcotico
Frankincense opens dry and papery, its lemon-peel edge sharpened by thyme’s green bite.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Smoky70
- Balsamic60
- Woody50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Thyme
- Tonka Bean
- Benzoin
- Oud
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense opens dry and papery, its lemon-peel edge sharpened by thyme’s green bite. The heart folds tonka’s soft almond sweetness into benzoin’s honeyed resin, blunting the incense’s ascetic spine while keeping it airy. Oud arrives quietly, more damp wood than barnyard, riding a cushion of vanilla that smooths patchouli’s cocoa-brown earth and lets clean white musk float the structure rather than anchor it. Over hours the incense retreats, leaving a skin-stuck weave of creamy tonka, muted oud and a powdery patchouli that smells like suede rubbed with brown sugar. Projection stays polite, a one-foot aura best for cool autumn days or low-lit evening work.
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.
