Drunk Saffron BORNTOSTANDOUT®
Plum opens with a deep, bruised fruitiness — less bright cherry, more fermented and dark.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Smoky70
- Patchouli60
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Leather
- Saffron
- Coffee
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPlum opens with a deep, bruised fruitiness — less bright cherry, more fermented and dark. Saffron enters quickly beside leather, giving the heart a smoky, slightly animalic character that pairs with the fruit in an almost boozy way.
Coffee reinforces the dry, bitter edge of the saffron, keeping sweetness at bay. As patchouli and musk settle in, they round the drydown without softening its edge entirely — vanilla adds just enough warmth to prevent the composition from reading purely austere.
The overall impression is dark and polarising: leather and saffron dominate, the fruit lurks rather than brightens, and the whole wears heavy. Better suited to evening than anywhere casual.
Scent twins
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