Millennials
Incense opens dry and papery, its mineral smoke sliced by tart pink grapefruit and a crackle of rosy pepper heat that keeps the top lively rather than churchy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Leather90
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Leather
- Amber
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readIncense opens dry and papery, its mineral smoke sliced by tart pink grapefruit and a crackle of rosy pepper heat that keeps the top lively rather than churchy. Leather arrives early, smooth and matte, riding on amber that thickens the incense dust while violet adds a cool, suede-like hush that blunts any tarry edges. Vetiver and cedar in the base steer the theme outdoors: the vetiver brings grassy lift, the cedar splinters of dry wood, and patchouli supplies a faintly earthy, bittersweet hum that keeps the amber from sagging. On skin the grapefruit burns off first, leaving a resin-leather haze that stays close but noticeable for hours, projecting an arm-length radius perfect for crisp fall nights or an evening gallery opening.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
