Oriental Lace
Clove dominates the opening, releasing a dry, medicinal heat that crackles against freesia's cool, green petals.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Earthy60
- Honey50
- Almond
The note pyramid
- Clove
- Freesia
- Vetiver
- Frankincense
- Vetiver
- Cocoa
- Clove
- Freesia
By the editors · 2 min readClove dominates the opening, releasing a dry, medicinal heat that crackles against freesia's cool, green petals. The flower softens the spice without adding sweetness, creating an austere top accord that feels like crushed stems and spice cabinet. Within twenty minutes the clove folds into vetiver's smoky rootiness, the two forming a charred wood accord that carries the frankincense's pine-like resin forward. The incense doesn't bloom into churchy smoke; it stays sharp and needle-like, pinning the composition to dark earth. Cocoa surfaces late, not as dessert but as bitter cocoa shell that adds dusty depth to the vetiver while muting the clove's bite. Projection stays within arm's length for six hours, then collapses to a resinous skin scent perfect for cool autumn evenings or layered winter knits.
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.
