Reine de Nuit
Saffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that stains the air like turmeric on linen, its medicinal edge sharpened by tart black-currant bud that crackles briefly like green gooseberry skins.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Black Currant
- Incense
- Patchouli
- Saffron
- Patchouli
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that stains the air like turmeric on linen, its medicinal edge sharpened by tart black-currant bud that crackles briefly like green gooseberry skins. Within minutes the fruit quiets, letting incense rise—thin, mineral, more censer smoke than resin—carrying the saffron’s pigment into a grey, ash-hearted heart where no floral shows. Patchouli arrives early, loamy and chocolate-dark, swallowing the smoke and curdling it into a matte, soil-brown accord that stays close to skin. The fragrance folds inward rather than down; what projects is a muted, papery dustiness that smells of dried rose petals forgotten in a wool pocket. Wear it in cool weather when you want presence without announcement; projection is office-polite, longevity seven hours, sillage a personal shadow.
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