Sardonyx Fire
Saffron arrives first, its leathery-dusty edge tinting the rose a deep brick red rather than the usual pink.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Rose
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron arrives first, its leathery-dusty edge tinting the rose a deep brick red rather than the usual pink. The rose itself is dry, almost pot-pourri, so the flower feels more like brittle petals than fresh bloom, letting the spice stay in charge. Vanilla creeps in slowly, not creamy but matte, pairing with patchouli to build a muted amber-brown accord that sits close to skin. Over two hours the saffron softens, the rose folds inward, and what remains is a dry, slightly earthy sweetness reminiscent of worn leather rubbed with sugar. Projection stays within arm’s length; the scent feels made for cool autumn days, a scarf-weight fragrance rather than a coat.
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.
