La Fumee Intense
Incense dominates immediately, releasing a dry, mineral smoke that crackles against cool lavender.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Lavender
- Cardamom
- Patchouli
- Myrrh
- Patchouli
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readIncense dominates immediately, releasing a dry, mineral smoke that crackles against cool lavender. The lavender doesn’t sweeten; instead it sharpens the resin, giving the smoke a lifted, almost metallic edge. Cardamom arrives early, threading a green-citrus heat through the embers, so the fragrance feels like charred sticks still dotted with spice pods. Myrrh and patchouli merge in the base, creating a dusty, bittersweet leather that smells of extinguished censer ashes and old wooden pews. Over hours the smoke softens, leaving a skin-print of warm, slightly salty resins and quiet earthy patchouli. Projection stays moderate, orbiting just inside personal space; it reads best in cool weather, at dusk, with wool or denim.
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.
