Karikia
Blood orange opens with a sharp, almost metallic citrus edge that quickly gets wrapped in saffron’s leathery dye, creating a glossy, paprika-stained brightness.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Woody80
- Nutty60
- Citrus60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Blood Orange
- Black Pepper
- Hinoki
- Frankincense
- Virginia Cedar
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange opens with a sharp, almost metallic citrus edge that quickly gets wrapped in saffron’s leathery dye, creating a glossy, paprika-stained brightness. The heart layers black pepper and nutmeg over hinoki cedar, the spice drying the soft cypress smoke so the wood reads like freshly split Japanese pencil shavings. Frankincense adds a quiet resinous hiss, never churchy, just enough to matte the citrus sheen. In the dry-down, tonka and vanilla relax the spices, while ambergris gives a salt-skin lift and castoreum blends with the lingering saffron to produce a subtle fur-belt musk that feels worn rather than sprayed. Projection stays at arm’s length for eight hours, tilting the scent toward cool evenings and smart-casual offices.
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.
