Red Hoba
Red Hoba opens with cinnamon and cardamom sharpened by bergamot—familiar spice-and-citrus territory—but the heart quickly displaces this with something more singular: frankincense and incense layered over orris and iris, building a structure that feels architecturally cold and resinous at once.
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.
- Smoky80
- Balsamic55
- Powdery55
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Incense
- Jasmine
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readRed Hoba opens with cinnamon and cardamom sharpened by bergamot—familiar spice-and-citrus territory—but the heart quickly displaces this with something more singular: frankincense and incense layered over orris and iris, building a structure that feels architecturally cold and resinous at once. The iris reads as iris-powder here, dusty and precise, while the frankincense adds a smoky transparency. The base is the fragrance's most committed statement: labdanum, castoreum, cashmeran, guaiac wood, and papyrus pressing together into something animalic and mineral that recalls the Hoba meteorite's own character—massive, inert, and ancient. Red Hoba is not a daily fragrance; it is a deliberate choice for deliberate occasions.
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.
