Incensum
Ginger ignites the top with a bright, peppery spark that crackles against the cool air.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Incense
- Myrrh
- Frankincense
- Leather
- Papyrus
By the editors · 2 min readGinger ignites the top with a bright, peppery spark that crackles against the cool air. Within minutes the resin triad rises: frankincense delivers high, citrus-tinged smoke, myrrh adds a darker, licorice-sweet thickness, and the overall incense accord becomes dry and church-cold rather than creamy. Papyrus in the base brings a cardboard-crisp wood facet that keeps the resins airborne, while leather arrives as a matte, black-hide note that quietly dominates the late dry-down, turning the composition from sacred to subterranean. Projection stays close but persistent, creating a personal veil of peppery smoke that feels most natural in cool, grey weather and restrained evening settings.
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.
