Oliban Grisens
Frankincense opens with a dry, resinous smokiness that carries a faintly medicinal and balsamic warmth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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
- Balsamic60
- Woody60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Sandalwood
- Ambroxan
- Cedarwood
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense opens with a dry, resinous smokiness that carries a faintly medicinal and balsamic warmth. Sandalwood emerges quickly, its creamy woodiness tempering the incense with a smooth, earthy foundation. Ambroxan amplifies the resinous character with its ambery, slightly musky diffusion while cedarwood adds a dry, pencil-shaving sharpness to the base. The composition remains linear and meditative, projecting moderately for the first hour before receding close to the skin. Longevity extends through the day on fabric, suited for cool weather and contemplative indoor occasions.
Scent twins
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