Ch Insignia 2018
Saffron opens the scent with a dry, papery spice that quickly pulls the bergamotot’s bright oil into a muted, dusty register.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Leather
- Oud
- Styrax
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens the scent with a dry, papery spice that quickly pulls the bergamotot’s bright oil into a muted, dusty register. Nutmeg adds a warm, grated-wood facet, so the top feels like cracked leather still carrying workshop grit. In the heart, oud arrives not as medicinal smoke but as seasoned woodchip, its sour edge softened by rosewater-steeped petals and styrax’s honeyed benzoin glaze. The base layers frankincense and guaiac into a slow-burning ember, while amber and patchpatchouli spread a dark, chewy resin that clings to cedar boards. On skin, the leather re-emerges after ninety minutes, now waxed and supple, riding a continuous incense plume. Projection stays within arm’s length, making it office-tolerant yet convincingly autumn-weight.
Scent twins
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