Kokain Black Ash
Incense and saffron open with immediate intensity — a resinous, slightly medicinal smoke that styrax pushes further into dense, dark territory.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Saffron
- Styrax
- Leather
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readIncense and saffron open with immediate intensity — a resinous, slightly medicinal smoke that styrax pushes further into dense, dark territory. There is a raw, almost ceremonial quality to the opening that leaves little ambiguity about where this is headed.
Frankincense and olibanum reinforce the incense linearity in the heart, adding a churchlike, dry smokiness rather than depth through contrast. Leather weaves through the middle and base, contributing a sooty edge rather than a polished hide character. Sandalwood in the base adds the only softening element, bringing a faint creaminess underneath the char. Polarising by design — not a fragrance that seeks compromise.
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.
