Varanasi
Frankincense opens austere and mineral, its resinous smoke shearing through saffron’s hay-like sweetness while cardamom flashes green heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Leather70
- Oud60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Ambergris
- Jasmine
- Cypriol
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense opens austere and mineral, its resinous smoke shearing through saffron’s hay-like sweetness while cardamom flashes green heat. The heart thickens as jasmine’s indolic petals absorb salty ambergris and bitter cypriol, turning the incense plume darker and slightly animalic; rose keeps the accord from turning tarry by adding a soft crimson glow. Base emerges as tanned leather wrapped around vetiver root, oud lending a dry, splintered-wood facet that extends the incense trail rather than sweetening it. Projection stays within arm’s length for eight hours, projecting a skin-warmed resinous haze rather than loud sillage. Cool evenings and smart-casual settings let the saffron-leather dialogue breathe without overheating.
Scent twins
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