Louban
Louban is the Arabic word for frankincense, and the composition makes no secret of its subject.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Smoky90
- Oud75
- Woody60
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Turkish Rose
- Violet Leaf
- Sandalwood
- Oud
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readLouban is the Arabic word for frankincense, and the composition makes no secret of its subject. Turkish rose opens the fragrance briefly — a formal threshold note — before violet leaf introduces its green bitterness in the heart. What follows is a base of unusual density: frankincense, oud, sandalwood, and patchouli in close layering, reading collectively as temple resin that has been weathered and darkened by time.
There is minimal florality here; the rose and violet serve to frame the entry rather than define the character. This is a resinous incense study with long projection and extended wear. Suited to cooler months, formal or evening settings, and wearers who approach fragrance as ritual rather than accent.
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.
