Relique d'Amour
The first breath is smoke and stone—myrrh rising dark and resinous, its bitterness softened by the green coolness of lily.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Oakmoss40
- Incense35
- Musk35
- Labdanum20
- Iris15
By the editors · 2 min readThe first breath is smoke and stone—myrrh rising dark and resinous, its bitterness softened by the green coolness of lily. This isn't the bright Easter lily of spring bouquets but something older, waxy and solemn, as though cut from the stem and laid on cold marble. Incense weaves through both, neither churchy nor meditative, but austere and slightly dusty, like the air in a forgotten chapel.
As it settles, moss and musk anchor everything in quietness. The moss brings a soft, grey-green shadow, while the musk stays close to the skin, clean rather than animalic. What emerges is less a perfume than an atmosphere—hushed, devotional, faintly melancholic.
This is for those who prefer fragrance as backdrop rather than announcement, who understand that restraint can be more moving than opulence. A scent of remembrance, worn in contemplation.