Orionis 2019
Frankincense and incense ignite first, exhaling a dry, papery smoke that carries a thread of saffron’s hay-like bitterness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Smoky90
- Oud80
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Saffron
- Ambergris
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense and incense ignite first, exhaling a dry, papery smoke that carries a thread of saffron’s hay-like bitterness. The heart thickens as ambergris adds a briny, skin-warm glow while patchouli pushes an earthy, cocoa-dark facet that keeps the smoke from turning acrid. A second musk layer arrives early and stays through the base, knitting the composition to skin rather to the room. In the dry-down benzoin and vanilla soften the edges, yet oud chips in a medicinal, camphor-tinged wood that stops the scent from ever feeling gourmand. Projection hoays within arm’s length for six hours, then settles to resin-veiled skin, perfect for cool evenings or layered under wool.
Scent twins
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