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Clary Sage opens with a bittersweet green-herbal flash that quickly folds into a resinous heart where frankincense and patchouli fuse into a cool, smoky haze.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
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- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Clary Sage
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readClary Sage opens with a bittersweet green-herbal flash that quickly folds into a resinous heart where frankincense and patchouli fuse into a cool, smoky haze. The incense dominates, throwing a dry, peppery veil over the earthy patchouli, while cedar keeps the structure angular. As the heart settles down, sandalwood warms the blend, letting amber seep in to soften the edges without turning sweet; the result is a muted, woody-smoke skin scent that lingers close. Projection stays polite—arm’s-length sillage for the first three hours—then settles into fabric. Cool autumn days and smart-casual offices fit its restrained, quietly resinous character.
Scent twins
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