Samia
Saffron and cardamom open warm, leathery, and aromatic — the saffron giving a golden, slightly metallic warmth and the cardamom a dry, peppery lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Balsamic60
- Leather60
- Smoky60
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Olibanum
- Labdanum
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and cardamom open warm, leathery, and aromatic — the saffron giving a golden, slightly metallic warmth and the cardamom a dry, peppery lift. The entrance is immediately Middle-Eastern in feel.
Olibanum and labdanum build a smoky-resinous heart, with violet and rose threading a soft floral cool through the smoke. The contrast between the dusky resins and the powdery florals is the most evocative phase, dense and incense-tinged. Ambergris and amber settle the drydown into a salty-warm, balsamic glow that holds the smoke close and extends the trail. The character is a rich smoky-amber oriental with a leathery saffron core and a long, resinous finish — projecting and slightly opulent, a slow-burning composition built for cool weather.
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.
