Bright Red
Sandalwood dominates the heart, its creamy density framing the incense smoke that rises immediately after application.
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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Incense
- Vetiver
- Rose
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readSandalwood dominates the heart, its creamy density framing the incense smoke that rises immediately after application. Vetiver threads a cool, rooty green through the wood, while rose softens the edges with a dry, papery petal accord rather than sweetness. Cedar and patchouli in the base tighten the structure: cedar adds splintered dryness that keeps the sandalwood from turning buttery, patchouli contributes cocoa-dark earth, and musk blankets the final hours in clean skin-scent warmth. The progression is linear yet steady: the opening smoke thins, wood gains prominence, then everything subsides into a quiet, woody musk that stays within personal space. Projection sits moderate for four hours before tucking against the collar, making it office-safe yet present. Cool autumn days and early spring evenings fit its restrained smolder best.
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.
