Nabati
Nabati opens with a jolt of rum and saffron, the sea salt cutting through the warmth and keeping the opening from feeling syrupy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Rum70
- Amber70
- Aromatic50
- Salty
The note pyramid
- Rum
- Saffron
- Sea Salt
- Cardamom
- Vetiver
- Cedar
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readNabati opens with a jolt of rum and saffron, the sea salt cutting through the warmth and keeping the opening from feeling syrupy. Cardamom threads through, adding a dry, aromatic edge before the composition begins to settle.
Vetiver and iris take over in the heart, lending an earthy, rooty dryness that contrasts the initial richness. Cedar adds structure without softening the overall character. The base is layered and deliberate — labdanum and amber build depth, while patchouli and leather give it a dry, resinous quality. Vanilla appears but stays restrained beneath the heavier materials.
The result is a smoky, leathered oriental that wears close and rewards patience.
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.
