Opoponax
Lavender dominates the opening, releasing a crisp, sun-dried herbal cloud that feels both cool and slightly camphoraceous.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Lavender90
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Opoponax
- Patchouli
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readLavender dominates the opening, releasing a crisp, sun-dried herbal cloud that feels both cool and slightly camphoraceous. Within minutes, opoponax seeps up from below, folding its warm, honeyed resin around the lavender while patchouli adds a dusty, cocoa-brown earthiness that keeps the sweetness from becoming plush. A brief squeeze of lemon and bergamot supplies lift, then disappears, letting the resinous heart swell further. Rose arrives late, a dry, papery accent that hovers rather than blooms, extending the meditative dryness well into the dry-down. Projection stays civil, radiating a soft incense haze for office-friendly hours. Cool autumn days and layered wool suit its reserved, monastic character best.
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.
