Incense
Incense smells smoky, resinous, and atmospheric, like glowing embers, charred wood, dry church air, and fragrant smoke curling through fabric. It can be cool and mineral, warm and balsamic, or almost leathery depending on how it is built. In perfume, incense appears in woody, amber, oriental, churchy, and meditative compositions, but also in modern fresh woods where a smoky thread adds dimension. It gives perfumes verticality: the sense of something rising. Incense is unforgettable in Comme des Garçons Kyoto, where smoke meets cedar and calm, and in Heeley Cardinal, where airy resins create a clean, luminous interpretation of sacred smoke.
- Liquides Imaginaires — Blanche Bête
- Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle — Acne Studios
- Etat Libre d'Orange — Above the Waves
- Maison Margiela — untitled
- Mancera — Amber Roses
- Tom Ford — Black Orchid
- Initio Parfums Privés — Oud for Greatness Hair Perfume
- Etat Libre d'Orange — Archives 69
- Matière Première — Crystal Saffron
- Parfums de Marly — Athalia
- Serge Lutens — Dent de Lait
- Amouage — Dia Man
- Etat Libre d'Orange — Attaquer le Soleil Marquis de Sade
- Matière Première — Encens Suave
- Amouage — Dia Woman
- Amouage — Epic Man
- Amouage — Epic Woman
- Ex Nihilo — Generation s
- Giardini di Toscana — Christos
- Initio Parfums Privés — Magnetic Blend 8
- Amouage — Gold Man
- Amouage — Gold Woman
- BDK Parfums — Oud Abramad
- Amouage — Guidance Hair Perfume