Desire Extreme
Desire Extreme leads with saffron threading through blood orange and bergamot — the citrus stays bright but the saffron gives it a metallic, slightly animalic edge from the start.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Blood Orange
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Leather
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readDesire Extreme leads with saffron threading through blood orange and bergamot — the citrus stays bright but the saffron gives it a metallic, slightly animalic edge from the start. Clary sage joins in the heart, adding an herbal bitterness that keeps the composition from tipping too sweet.
Leather arrives in the base with confidence, supported by vetiver's dry earthiness and patchouli's subtle darkness. Amber rounds everything out, smoothing the transitions without softening the leather's character.
The result is a citrus-spice leather that leans masculine and somewhat austere. The saffron-leather pairing is the defining axis — dry, smoky-edged, and moderately dense, with reasonable projection and staying power through the dry-down.
Scent twins
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