Amber Al Makassar
Saffron opens with its characteristic metallic, slightly bitter warmth — not sweet, more raw and mineral.
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.
- Rose80
- Floral60
- Soft Spicy50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Jasmine
- Tar
- Rose
- May Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with its characteristic metallic, slightly bitter warmth — not sweet, more raw and mineral. It sets a serious tone before the heart unfolds.
Jasmine and rose step forward together, with May rose adding a slightly greener, less powdery facet. Tar sits underneath this floral accord as a dark undercurrent, preventing the roses from becoming pretty or soft. The combination leans smoky and atmospheric rather than romantic.
Sandalwood and vetiver form a dry, woody base that supports without adding sweetness. The overall impression is of a somber, resinous floral with an almost leathery undertone — dense and deliberately austere in character.
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.
