Montmartre
Frankincense opens dry and resinous, immediately casting a papery smoke veil that clings to the skin.
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.
- Smoky90
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Myrrh
- Frankincense
- Patchouli
- Iris
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense opens dry and resinous, immediately casting a papery smoke veil that clings to the skin. Myrrh thickens the incense, adding a bitter-anisic edge that turns the opening slightly medicinal while iris slips underneath, lending cool powder that keeps the resins from turning tarry. Patchouli arrives early, its earthy cocoa nuance braiding with the still-wafting incense to create a muted brown heart that feels like charred wood dusted with iris root. As the smoke settles, ambergris lends a salty, almost slick roundness, allowing amber to glow softly rather than sweeten, while leather emerges as a matte, suede-like skin scent that muffles the resins rather than competing with them. Projection stays close, a translucent incense halo perfect for cool evenings or layered under heavier leathers.
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.




