Bowhanti - Spicy Woods
Galbanum snaps open with bitter-green sap, sharp enough to cut through winter air.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Green70
- Warm Spicy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Cinnamon
- Freesia
- Frankincense
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum snaps open with bitter-green sap, sharp enough to cut through winter air. Cinnamon quickly swirls in, adding dry heat that warms the resinous bite while freesia keeps the heart airy rather than syrupy. Frankincense and patchouli build a smoky, earthy base that smells like scorched pine needles and cooled ember dust, the patchouli lending a cocoa-dark earthiness that anchors the incense. Over hours the green flash subsides and the fragrance settles into a muted, resinous skin scent where cinnamon re-emerges as a gentle glow rather than a spice rack blast. Projection stays within arm’s length, making it a cool-weather companion for offices or brisk walks.
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.




