Costume National I
Saffron arrives first with thyme braided through it — dry, slightly metallic, herbaceous in a way that reads more apothecary than kitchen.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Thyme
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Labdanum
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron arrives first with thyme braided through it — dry, slightly metallic, herbaceous in a way that reads more apothecary than kitchen. Bergamot brightens the edges briefly, then the heart takes over: lavender goes resinous against labdanum, the two of them building a smoky-sweet plinth.
The base unfolds into a polished leather, smooth rather than animalic, with ambroxan pushing a clean salty-warm radiance and cedar holding the structure dry and upright. There is a quiet glow throughout the dry-down, neither dense nor showy, the saffron-leather thread persisting for hours as a soft hum on the skin.
Overall character: a streamlined modern leather-amber, herbal at the top, suede-warm at the close, restrained and architectural.
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.
