Smoke
Galbanum opens with a sharp, green, almost resinous quality that introduces a smoky, aromatic character from the start.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Green60
- Smoky60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Cardamom
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Olibanum
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum opens with a sharp, green, almost resinous quality that introduces a smoky, aromatic character from the start. Warm cardamom and delicate rose emerge in the heart, adding a spicy-floral nuance that softens the initial green intensity. The base combines dry sandalwood, resinous olibanum, and sweet benzoin with woody atlas cedar, creating a complex, smoky-woody dry-down. This scent evolves significantly over time, starting with strong projection that gradually becomes more intimate and resinous. Longevity is excellent, lasting over twelve hours, making it suitable for formal evening wear in cool or cold seasons.
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.
