Sandal Amber
Incense opens dry and resinous, immediately staking out a contemplative space.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Sandalwood
- Olibanum
- Amber
- Labdanum
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readIncense opens dry and resinous, immediately staking out a contemplative space. The heart folds sandalwood’s creamy grain into olibanum’s lemon-peel frankincense, while amber spreads a honeyed, tobacco-like glow that softens the smoke. Labdanum and vanilla in the base thicken the amber into a supple leather accord, and patchouli adds a muted cocoa earthiness that keeps the sweetness in check. Over hours the incense recedes, leaving a skin-close haze of blond resins and lightly powdered wood that smells like the empty church the day after a service. Projection stays moderate, radiating about arm’s length for six hours, then settling into a quiet amber glow ideal for cool autumn evenings or layered under a wool coat.
Scent twins
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