Siene
Siene leads with a single, definitive top note — leather — that sets the perfume's whole register before anything else arrives.
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.
- Amber70
- Leather70
- Honey50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Incense
- Myrrh
- Frankincense
- Patchouli
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readSiene leads with a single, definitive top note — leather — that sets the perfume's whole register before anything else arrives. The heart turns ecclesiastical: frankincense and myrrh laid over patchouli, with iris cutting a cool, slightly powdery line through the resins so the smoke never goes flat.
The base is where the leather and incense make peace. Sandalwood and ambergris soften the smoke, honey adds a beeswax warmth that smells like old wood polish, and amber-musk closes the perfume around the wearer. It reads like a candle-lit room in a stone church — quiet, dense, and slightly ceremonial. Best in cold weather or air-conditioned interiors, evening, when the smoke has space to breathe.
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.




