Bohemian Soul
Frankincense opens cleanly and directly — a resinous, slightly dry smokiness with a hint of cool airiness characteristic of quality olibanum.
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.
- Smoky85
- Balsamic80
- Woody65
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Myrrh
- Iris
- Sandalwood
- Musk
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense opens cleanly and directly — a resinous, slightly dry smokiness with a hint of cool airiness characteristic of quality olibanum. It projects with purpose before settling into the heart.
Myrrh and iris take over in the middle stages, adding a darker, slightly earthy sweetness beneath the incense. The iris tempers the myrrh's heaviness with a pale, powdery quality that prevents the resinous notes from feeling oppressive.
Guaiac wood and sandalwood build the base into something dry and quietly smoky, with musk providing a thin skin-level foundation. The overall profile is a meditative, resinous-woody composition with a cool iris thread running through its center.
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.
