Ash Flower
Saffron opens with its characteristic golden, slightly smoky quality and peach adds a soft, warm fruitiness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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
- Balsamic60
- Soft Spicy50
- Almond
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Peach
- Labdanum
- Tonka Bean
- Olibanum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with its characteristic golden, slightly smoky quality and peach adds a soft, warm fruitiness. The combination in the top already points toward an opulent, dark oriental direction.
Labdanum in the heart is the structural core — rich, animalic, resinous, and slightly leathery. It brings a complex density that sets the tone for the entire dry-down. Tonka bean and olibanum in the base add warmth and incense smoke respectively, while patchouli contributes an earthy, slightly medicinal depth.
The overall character is dark and resinous, built around labdanum's leathery-amber quality with spiced fruitiness above and incense below. Dense, low-projection and better suited to skin and cooler weather where its intensity can develop slowly.
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.