Costarela Carner 2016 Eau de Parfum
Saffron opens the composition with its metallic, faintly medicinal warmth — dry rather than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Amber90
- Warm Spicy60
- Woody60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Italian Bergamot
- Marine Notes
- Ambroxan
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens the composition with its metallic, faintly medicinal warmth — dry rather than sweet. It radiates a directness that feels almost austere at first contact.
As the saffron settles, ambroxan takes over, lending that characteristic skin-amplifying quality: clean, warm, and subtly woody. Virginia cedar anchors this with a pencil-shaving dryness, while amber rounds the base without tipping into sweetness.
The overall effect is spare and close-wearing — saffron and ambroxan are an efficient pairing, creating a scent that reads as both warm and arid. It leans minimal, with the cedar giving just enough structure to keep the ambroxan from floating away.
Scent twins
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