Dark Saphir
The opening is dense and busy — ginger and pepper crackling through fruit, raspberry and peach dragged by cumin into something faintly skin-warm, bergamot doing the necessary lifting work.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Cinnamon80
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Violet Leaf
- Black Pepper
- Raspberry
- Cumin
- Peach
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is dense and busy — ginger and pepper crackling through fruit, raspberry and peach dragged by cumin into something faintly skin-warm, bergamot doing the necessary lifting work.
The heart deepens into cinnamon and rose, with iris and heliotrope smoothing the spice into a creamy almond-tinged powder. Jasmine threads through, and the whole middle sits between candied and slightly animalic, sweet but with a shadow.
Resins and woods settle the drydown — labdanum and frankincense, tonka and vanilla over patchouli and guaiac. The result is rich, cinnamon-forward and quietly spicy, with a soft incense gleam. Overall the character feels lush and composed, suited to cold-weather wear.
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.
