Virtuous
Saffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that immediately stains the skin a deep crimson.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Mysore Sandalwood
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that immediately stains the skin a deep crimson. The heart blooms into a velvet rose, its petals dusted with the same saffron tannin, creating a floral that feels cured rather than fresh. Sandalwood layers arrive in two waves: first the creamy Mysore variety that smooths the rose's edges, then a drier Atlas cedar that adds splintered woodgrain texture. Labdanum's resinous amber and musk's skin-warm salt pull the composition into something that smells like antique wooden chests lined with faded silk. Over hours the saffron darkens further, turning the rose into something almost tobacco-like while the sandalwood hums a steady, milky chord beneath. Projection stays within arm's length, making it ideal for cool autumn offices or intimate winter dinners where you want noticed but not announced.
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.
