Belle Captive Privé N°9
Frankincense opens dry and crystalline, its lemon-pepper edge slicing through the powdery iris that follows immediately.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Iris80
- Powdery70
- Balsamic60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Iris
- Tonka Bean
- Violet
- Sandalwood
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense opens dry and crystalline, its lemon-pepper edge slicing through the powdery iris that follows immediately. The heart folds tonka bean's warm hay-almond facet under violet's cool, woody petal, creating a muted tobacco-leather nuance without any actual tobacco present. Benzoin creeps in early, turning the incense from church-smoke to honeyed resin that clings to skin, while sandalwood arrives late as a creamy, milk-pale wood that blurs the edges rather than adding structure. Projection stays within arm's length for six hours, then collapses to a skin-whisper of vanilla-sawdust perfect for close office work or cool spring evenings when you want presence without announcement.
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.
