Wild Incense
Frankincense and olibanum lead immediately, dry smoke laced with a peppery resinous bite.
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.
- Smoky85
- Balsamic60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Guaiac Wood
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense and olibanum lead immediately, dry smoke laced with a peppery resinous bite. The opening is dark and meditative, with none of the citrus throat-clearing typical of mainstream releases.
Guaiac wood thickens the smoke through the heart, oily and slightly tarry, while a single rose blooms inside the haze. The flower never softens the composition; it just adds a small, distant warmth, like incense burned near a vase.
Tonka, vetiver and benzoin pool underneath, sweet-resinous and a touch leathery. Overall character is brooding and ceremonial, an incense-and-woods affair for cold weather and quiet hours, projecting strongly at first and settling into a long, balsamic skin print.
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.
