Libertine
Cumin seed and saffron hit first, their oily-spice heat prickling the nose while orange blossom keeps the opening from turning fully savory.
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.
- Honey50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Saffron
- Orange Blossom
- Rose
- Leather
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readCumin seed and saffron hit first, their oily-spice heat prickling the nose while orange blossom keeps the opening from turning fully savory. Within minutes the cumin folds into rose, creating a salty-skin accord that smells like wrists after handling ras-el-hanout. Leather emerges underneath, not birch-tar rugged but suede softened by amber, stretching the spice-rose heart into a warm, faintly animalic glow that lingers close to skin. Projection stays conversational, never shouting, and the scent remains recognizably leather-forward for six hours before collapsing into a musky amber haze. Ideal for cool autumn evenings when you want spice without sweetness.
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.
