Herod
Hérod opens with a thick, resinous cinnamon that feels closer to temple smoke than spice rack—sweet but not gourmand, dense without being cloying.
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.
- Smoky90
- Cinnamon85
- Balsamic80
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Labdanum
- Tobacco
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readHérod opens with a thick, resinous cinnamon that feels closer to temple smoke than spice rack—sweet but not gourmand, dense without being cloying. The incense emerges almost immediately, darkened by labdanum's leathery warmth, while osmanthus adds a subtle apricot-tinged softness that keeps the composition from turning austere.
As it settles, the tobacco-leaf richness many wearers detect (though unlisted) mingles with vetiver's earthy bite and a creamy vanilla that never dominates. Iso E Super lends a woody halo that makes the whole structure feel larger than its parts. The result is a scent that recalls old wooden furniture in a room where something expensive is burning—less overtly masculine than deeply enveloping.
Hérod works for those who want presence without sharpness, sweetness without sugar. It's a winter fragrance that doesn't rely on booze or oud, finding its gravity in smoke and wood instead.
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.
Where readers placed it
December layering
Dense, resinous, built to last through wool coats and cold air. These are fragrances that reward wearing in stages — a base that anchors, spice that blooms in the warmth of a scarf, amber that deepens by evening. Not decorative. Substantive.
