Sadu
The opening lands with cumin's sweat-warm hum already audible under saffron and pink pepper.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Amber55
- Soft Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Ambrette
- Magnolia
- Bulgarian Rose
- Damask Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening lands with cumin's sweat-warm hum already audible under saffron and pink pepper. Ambrette adds a powdered, slightly fatty muskiness that signals where the composition is heading.
The heart pivots to twin roses — Bulgarian and Damask — laid over magnolia. The florals read jammy and dense rather than fresh, the cumin pulling them into something close to dried-rose-petal-meets-skin. There is no fruit lift here.
Base notes do most of the work: cypriol smolders dry and inky, sandalwood and patchouli ground it, moss extends the earthy register, and amber-vanilla-musk close everything down. The overall character is dense, spicy-rosy, animalic on skin. Strong projection in the first three hours, then quiet warmth for many more.
Scent twins
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