Rook by Rook
Smoke and incense billow first, dense and resinous, while ginger cuts through with a bright, almost citrus-heat that keeps the opening from turning tarry.
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.
- Animalic70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Incense
- Ylang-Ylang
- Smoke
- Cardamom
- Guaiac Wood
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readSmoke and incense billow first, dense and resinous, while ginger cuts through with a bright, almost citrus-heat that keeps the opening from turning tarry. Cardamom’s cool green sparkle rides the smoke, and ylang-ylang adds a faintly sweet, banana-like cream that softens the edges before the heart emerges. Guaiac wood brings a dry, pencil-shaving woodiness that meshes with honeyed tobacco leaf and a muted violet that smells more like steamed leaves than like flowers. The base is where the animalic cast lands: civet and castoreum lend a sour, almost urinous fur accord, ambergris contributes salty, skin-like roundness, and vetiver gives a rooty, slightly grassy bitterness that reins in the sweetness. Over hours it settles into a leathery, ashy skin scent whose projection stays within arm’s length for six to eight hours, perfect for cool fall nights or an intimate evening venue.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
