Shamal
Opens crisp and cool — a green-skinned apple struck against frankincense, the contrast of fresh fruit and cold smoke.
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.
- Smoky70
- Fruity60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Amber
- Musk
- Apple
By the editors · 2 min readOpens crisp and cool — a green-skinned apple struck against frankincense, the contrast of fresh fruit and cold smoke. The brightness doesn't last long; the resin is the real subject.
From the heart on, the structure is simple and steady. Amber widens beneath the incense, deepening the smoke into something warmer and more body-tempered. There's no floral arc, no sweet detour — the dry-down stays in resin territory.
Musk in the close keeps it close to the skin. Best read as atmospheric: a scent for cooler air, indoor light, and the low pull of something quiet rather than demonstrative.
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.
