Foconero
Foconero — black fire in Italian — earns the drama of its name more in the base than the opening.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Lavender65
- Warm Spicy55
- Woody55
- Marine
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Lavender
- Lime
- Lime
- Thyme
- Thyme
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readFoconero — black fire in Italian — earns the drama of its name more in the base than the opening. Lavender, lime, and thyme form a crisp, herbal introduction: bright and slightly culinary, the sort of opening that promises something clean. Cardamom in the heart sharpens the aromatic register while ylang-ylang adds a creamy floral note that stops short of sweetness.
Then the woods arrive: sandalwood, cedar, oakmoss, patchouli — a dense, dark foundation that anchors the whole structure in something almost architectural. It doesn't burn so much as smolder. The contradiction between the fresh top and the dark base is what keeps it interesting across the drydown.
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.
