Nefarious
Saffron opens Nefarious with a dry leather accent that immediately pulls the peach into a syrupy glow rather than fresh fruit.
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.
- Iris60
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Peach
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Neroli
- Orange
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens Nefarious with a dry leather accent that immediately pulls the peach into a syrupy glow rather than fresh fruit. The heart stacks neroli’s bitter orange sparkle against iris’s cool carrot powder, while rose adds a faintly sweet velvet that keeps the accord from turning chalky. Vanilla and amber merge early, so the base never feels heavy; instead they wrap sandalwood in a soft caramel haze that lingers close to skin. Projection stays polite, radiating barely beyond arm’s length for six hours before musk strips the sweetness to a clean wood ribbon. Office-friendly spice that reads more suede than oud, it performs best in cool spring air where the lavender echo can breathe.
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.
