Amber Absolute
Frankincense arrives first with its dry, slightly lemony resin, instantly setting an ecclesiastical tone.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Amber
- Labdanum
- Vanilla
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense arrives first with its dry, slightly lemony resin, instantly setting an ecclesiastical tone. There's no sweetness yet, only smoke curling off cool stone.
Amber and labdanum take over quickly, dense and almost sticky, with labdanum's leathery, slightly animalic facet giving the warmth real depth rather than cosmetic sheen. Vanilla weaves through but stays balsamic, reading more like dried resin than dessert. Patchouli adds a damp, earthy undertow that grounds the sweetness.
The overall character is heavy, syrupy with resin, and unabashedly orientalist, the kind of scent that fills a room slowly and lingers on fabric for days. It's built for cold weather, long evenings, and skin that can carry weight.
Scent twins
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