Incense in perfume means frankincense resin, olibanum on formal ingredient lists, and it smells of cool smoke, pine-lemon brightness and old stone rooms. It is the note perfumers reach for to add stillness: where most materials warm a scent up, incense cools it down and gives it architecture. Acqua di Giò Profumo is the modern masterclass, incense floated over seawater so the whole thing smells like mist on rock. Herod uses it to put a high ceiling over tobacco-vanilla, and Fame Parfum threads it through fruit so the sweetness feels considered. Incense scents suit deliberate, low-key people and cold seasons. If "smoky" sounds appealing but bonfires sound too much, this is the refined end of smoke.
Designer fragrances built with Incense. 5 perfumes that feature the note, from top to dry-down.