Santal Indien
Saffron opens dry and leathery, its papery spice immediately staining bergamot’s bright oils into a muted apricot glow.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Bergamot
- Orange Blossom
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens dry and leathery, its papery spice immediately staining bergamot’s bright oils into a muted apricot glow. Orange blossom enters next, but instead of lush sweetness it arrives powdered and clean, letting the saffron stay centre-stage while adding a quiet white-floral lift. As the top folds into the base, tonka’s soft almond facet couples with vanilla to create a creamy blond tobacco illusion that smooths the sandalwood’s grain rather than masking it. The musk stays low, extending the wood’s pale earthy hum so the scent remains skin-close for hours, more suede than smoke. Projection is polite, a personal aura perfect for close office days or cool autumn walks when you want warmth without declaration.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
