La Fumee
Incense opens with a direct, resinous declaration — lavender alongside it providing the only aromatic gentleness before the composition dives deep.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Woody70
- Smoky70
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Lavender
- Cumin
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readIncense opens with a direct, resinous declaration — lavender alongside it providing the only aromatic gentleness before the composition dives deep. Cumin in the heart adds its characteristic bodily warmth, a note that polarizes but here works correctly with the smoky incense arc; cardamom brings aromatic spice without sweetening. The base is the composition's ambition: oud, regular and Mysore sandalwood, birch, and Atlas cedar build a woodsmoke accord of real depth — birch adding its distinctive tarry quality; amber extends the warmth into a long, trailing dry-down. La Fumée is a fragrance for those who want to smell like they've been somewhere specific — a candlelit room, ancient wood, burning resin — and find that a worthwhile ambition.
Scent twins
In this family
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