Victory
Birch tar opens with a sharp, creosote edge that immediately signals leather, while saffron lifts the composition with a dry, medicinal glint.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Birch
- Saffron
- Clove
- Thyme
- Cardamom
- Leather
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readBirch tar opens with a sharp, creosote edge that immediately signals leather, while saffron lifts the composition with a dry, medicinal glint. The heart piles on more birch and a rugged oud, letting clove and cardamom simmer underneath so the accord stays tarry rather than sweet; jasmine and rose are present but swallowed by the smoke, serving only to soften the animalic growl. As it settles, sandalwood and vanilla warm the hide, yet castoreum and civet keep a feral rasp alive, while vetiver and patchouli add earthy, bittersweet texture that prevents the base from ever turning creamy. Projection rides about a foot off skin for most of its life, then pulls closer as the woods dry. Cool nights, dark jackets, and confident moods are its natural habitat.
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.
