Olibanum
Freesia opens with a cool, green-floral snap that feels dewy rather than sweet, setting a crisp stage for the resinous heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Freesia
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
- Myrrh
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readFreesia opens with a cool, green-floral snap that feels dewy rather than sweet, setting a crisp stage for the resinous heart. Labdanum arrives next, spreading a warm, leathery amber that softens the edges while patchouli adds an earthy, slightly camphorous backbone. The transition to base is seamless: myrrh and olibanum fuse into a austere incense accord, powdery yet faintly citrus-tinged, that hovers close to skin like the inside of an old cedar box. Over hours the incense smolders quietly, the early floral lift gone, leaving a dry, meditative trail that smells more of resin crystals than smoke. Projection stays within arm’s reach; it reads as contemplative, office-safe, and thrives in cool, still air.
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.
