Encens et Lavande
Lavender is the central pillar — dense, smoky, and slightly resinous rather than the soapy-clean lavender of conventional fougères.
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.
- Herbal70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Rosemary
- Amber
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readLavender is the central pillar — dense, smoky, and slightly resinous rather than the soapy-clean lavender of conventional fougères. Rosemary threads in with a green-aromatic sharpness that keeps the composition feeling alive and herbaceous.
Clary sage joins underneath with a hay-like, slightly tea-leaf warmth. Although the name implies frankincense, the smoke here reads more as a quality of the lavender itself — a dry, slightly burnt herbal smolder rather than a true incense accord.
Amber softens the drydown with a balsamic warmth that grounds the herbs. The overall character is an austere herbal-aromatic with a smoky lavender at its center, reading as meditative and minimalist — built for cold weather and quiet hours rather than projection or sociability.
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.
