The Hope
The Hope opens with a dense, resinous blast — cinnamon and cardamom riding over the sharp bite of myrrh and frankincense.
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.
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Myrrh
- Frankincense
- Cardamom
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThe Hope opens with a dense, resinous blast — cinnamon and cardamom riding over the sharp bite of myrrh and frankincense. There is real heat here from the start, the kind that feels more eastern market than western department store.
Cedar and patchouli settle in during the heart, adding a dry, woody structure that keeps the spices from becoming too sweet. Frankincense reappears in the base, grounding everything alongside labdanum and vetiver, which pull the composition toward a cool, smoky earth.
The overall effect is dark and slow-burning — a dense resinous accord that stays close to the skin in its final hours. Best suited to cold-weather wear.
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.
