Madinah
Orange and bergamot provide a bright, easy opening with rose already present at the top, giving the citrus a floral softness from the outset.
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.
- Amber65
- Rose60
- Woody60
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Jasmine
- Saffron
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and bergamot provide a bright, easy opening with rose already present at the top, giving the citrus a floral softness from the outset. Saffron emerges in the heart alongside jasmine and sandalwood, adding spiced warmth that builds slowly without overpowering. Cedar threads through both heart and base, keeping the structure dry and upright while amber and cashmeran add a smooth, skin-close quality in the drydown. Madinah earns its elegance through restraint: the saffron is handled lightly, and the wood-amber base lands as refined rather than heavy.
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.
