Passion Victim
Olibanum takes the lead, releasing a lemony-citrus frankincense smoke that quickly folds into a dry rose heart.
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.
- Smoky60
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Olibanum
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Sandalwood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readOlibanum takes the lead, releasing a lemony-citrus frankincense smoke that quickly folds into a dry rose heart. The rose here is stripped of sweetness, pressed against the resin until it reads as papery and slightly mineral. Sandalwood arrives early underneath, its creamy lactones softening the incense edges while keeping the structure sheer and matte. Amber does not read as vanillic; instead it acts as a warm, low-hand torch that lengthens the resin’s ember without adding sugar, so the late dry-down stays woody-dusty rather than balsamic. Projection sits within arm’s length for six hours, making it office-viable yet present through the day. Cool autumn days and indoor venues let the incense smolder without turning acrid.
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.
