Forest 2020 Edition
Incense and black pepper create an opening that is smoky and sharply spicy, with a meditative resinous quality.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Warm Spicy60
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Black Pepper
- White Musk
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readIncense and black pepper create an opening that is smoky and sharply spicy, with a meditative resinous quality. Cedar adds a dry woody backbone that supports the smoky accord, providing structure and depth. Patchouli contributes an earthy and slightly sweet undertone that blends with the wood and smoke. White musk softens the composition, adding a clean skin-like quality that makes the scent more wearable. The fragrance remains linear, focusing on a smoky woody-spicy character with minimal evolution. Projection is moderate with good longevity, suited for fall and winter evenings in cool weather. This is a straightforward scent for those who appreciate dry, smoky wood accords.
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.
