Norne
The opening is dark and resinous, thick with labdanum and incense smoke that coats the air like aged varnish.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Sweet
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is dark and resinous, thick with labdanum and incense smoke that coats the air like aged varnish. There's a balsamic sweetness underneath, almost medicinal—something between pine tar and old honey—that gives it a gothic weight. It doesn't bloom so much as settle, dense and unmoving.
As it wears, a leathery green undertone emerges, mossy and cold, like walking through a wet forest at twilight. The sweetness never fully lifts but becomes earthier, less syrupy. What remains is dark, woodsy, and deliberately heavy—a scent that seems to absorb light rather than reflect it.
This is for those who want their fragrance to feel tactile and immersive, something closer to ritual than ornament. It wears close but insistent, more atmosphere than announcement.
Scent twins
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