Barkhane
Barkhane announces its character early: bergamot's brightness burns off quickly, and cumin takes over — warm, slightly carnal, the kind of note that divides rooms.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Oud80
- Balsamic70
- Sweet70
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Cumin
- Tonka Bean
- Oud
- Vetiver
- Myrrh
By the editors · 2 min readBarkhane announces its character early: bergamot's brightness burns off quickly, and cumin takes over — warm, slightly carnal, the kind of note that divides rooms. This is not a crowd-pleaser and doesn't try to be. The base is where the full ambition becomes clear: oud and myrrh provide smoke and resin in layers, labdanum adds animalic depth, vetiver contributes an earthy keel, and vanilla and tonka soften the edges without tipping into sweetness.
Patchouli holds the composition together. The overall impression is of heat, sand, and shadow — a desert-inspired oriental that conjures landscape rather than flowers, dense and unhurried, suited for those who want a fragrance that doesn't apologize for its presence.
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.
