Lucenera
Benzoin opens thick and resinous, dripping vanilla-laced tar over a spark of green thyme that briefly lifts the gloom before surrendering.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Smoky70
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Benzoin
- Thyme
- Ambergris
- Myrrh
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBenzoin opens thick and resinous, dripping vanilla-laced tar over a spark of green thyme that briefly lifts the gloom before surrendering. Ambergris arrives early, its salty marine fuzz wrapping the sticky benzoin in warm animalic skin, while myrrh and labdanum double the balsamic density, turning the heart into a smoky incense furnace. Sandalwood and patchouli in the base tilt the amber glow toward dry, woody leather, the musk stretching a faint suede veil that keeps the sweetness from congealing. Over hours the accord softens into a a toasted vanilla-amber haze that still exhales quiet curls of smoke and salt. Projection stays arm’s-length for six hours, then settles to skin, happiest in cool fall evenings or a dark-wood restaurant booth.
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.
