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Saffron, lemon, bergamot, and rose open together — saffron's leathery-metallic warmth setting the tone, the citruses adding brightness, rose adding immediate floral weight.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Woody60
- Mossy60
- Earthy55
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Ambergris
- Cypriol
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron, lemon, bergamot, and rose open together — saffron's leathery-metallic warmth setting the tone, the citruses adding brightness, rose adding immediate floral weight. The combination is unusual: saffron up top pulls the start toward something dusty and slightly smoky rather than fresh.
Ambergris, cypriol, and ylang-ylang build the heart. Cypriol smolders dry and earthy-smoky, ambergris adds a salty-skin warmth, and ylang-ylang brings a banana-creamy yellow-floral counterpoint. The middle is dense and slightly resinous.
Sandalwood, oakmoss, patchouli, and musk close the base in classic chypre form. Moss and patchouli ground it earthy, sandalwood adds creamy wood, musk smooths the finish. Overall character: a smoky-floral chypre with saffron-rose lift. Projection moderate to strong, longevity excellent.
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Scent twins
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