Casbah
Black pepper and nutmeg open with dry, cracked spice — no sweetness, no citrus to soften the edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Smoky85
- Warm Spicy65
- Tobacco60
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Tobacco
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and nutmeg open with dry, cracked spice — no sweetness, no citrus to soften the edge. Casbah hits hard from the start, and the name is apt: this is a fragrance built around the sensory idea of dense, layered smoke and heat rather than any conventional perfume structure.
The heart is where it lives: incense and frankincense burn at different temperatures simultaneously, with tobacco adding a cured warmth that keeps the smoke from reading as purely ecclesiastical. Iris cuts through the haze, providing a mineral clarity that prevents the composition from becoming oppressive.
Vetiver and cedar dry everything down to a clean, powdery finish — an unexpectedly restrained landing after such an assertive opening. Challenging and singular.
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.
