№ 05 - Incense Extrême
Petitgrain opens with a sharp green-woody citrus character, clean but slightly bitter, providing contrast against what follows.
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.
- Smoky85
- Iris75
- Balsamic65
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Frankincense
- Iris
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain opens with a sharp green-woody citrus character, clean but slightly bitter, providing contrast against what follows. It clears quickly, leaving a stark threshold before the heart asserts itself.
Frankincense dominates the core — dry, resinous, and austere — with iris softening it slightly toward powder without eliminating the stony edge. The combination reads as cold and ceremonial rather than warm or comforting. Ambergris in the base adds a faint salty, animalic warmth that prevents the composition from feeling entirely airless.
The overall feel is lean and stripped-back. Incense at full volume with minimal sweetness or softness — precise and polarising, best in cool, quiet contexts.
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.
