Misterioso
Sandalwood dominates the opening, its creamy density immediately threaded with cedar's dry rasp and a cool church-incense smoke.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Incense
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Vetiver
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readSandalwood dominates the opening, its creamy density immediately threaded with cedar's dry rasp and a cool church-incense smoke. Within minutes patchouli arrives, not earthy but cleaned and polished, pushing the woods into bittersweet territory while vetiver in the heart adds a rooty green snap that keeps the texture from turning syrupy. Labdanum and amber settle in close, stretching the resins into a leather-soft amber panel that glows faintly sweet on skin for hours. Projection stays polite, leaving a low resin-wood halo perfect for cool evenings or dark-panelled rooms; longevity creeps past midnight without shouting. The scent is linear after the first half-hour, yet the accord feels plush because the sandalwood never collapses into powder.
Scent twins
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