Glize
Saffron opens dry and iodine-tinged, staining the air with a medicinal gold that quickly attracts osmanthus.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Violet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Osmanthus
- Violet
- Leather
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens dry and iodine-tinged, staining the air with a medicinal gold that quickly attracts osmanthus. The apricot-leather nuance of osmanthus folds into violet’s cool powdered petals, creating a muted floral suede that feels both fruity and mineral. As the heart settles, vetiver’s grassy smoke rises through the accord, drying the petals and turning the suede into raw hide. Leather finally dominates, a matte, sun-baked skin that carries a faint saffron stain and the last woody rasp of vetiver. Projection stays arm’s-length for five hours, then collapses to a leather skin-scent that favors cool evenings and smart-casual dress codes.
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.