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Saffron and orange blossom open with an immediate tension — metallic spice against soft white floral — before bergamot provides brief citrus relief.
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.
- Amber80
- Oud80
- Smoky80
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Moss
- Cumin
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and orange blossom open with an immediate tension — metallic spice against soft white floral — before bergamot provides brief citrus relief. The middle introduces moss and cumin, shifting the composition toward something earthy and faintly animalic. Clary sage adds an herbal, slightly smoky edge that reinforces the darkness.
The base is dense. Oud, labdanum, frankincense, vetiver, and patchouli pile into a resinous, smoky foundation. Tonka bean and vanilla soften the edges, but the overall effect remains brooding and heavy. Amber ties these elements together, lending warmth without sweetness.
This is a deep, smoky oriental built for cold weather — intense, complex, and best suited to evening or formal occasions.
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.
