Arabian Desert
Saffron and pink pepper open with a dry, metallic sharpness, the bergamot lifting the accord briefly before it settles.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Incense
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and pink pepper open with a dry, metallic sharpness, the bergamot lifting the accord briefly before it settles. The heat fades quickly, giving way to a rose that feels dusty and resinous rather than fresh-cut — closer to petals dried in warm air.
Incense deepens the dry-down considerably, pulling the composition toward something sparse and almost meditative. Amber holds things together without sweetening them much, keeping the overall register dry and mineral.
The result reads as a spare, Middle Eastern-inflected fragrance without leaning heavily on oud or sweetness. It works best in dry, cool weather where the saffron and incense can breathe without turning sharp.
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.
