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Saffron ignites the opening with a dry, papery spice that quickly pulls thyme’s green bite into the frame, while bergamot adds only a brief citric flicker before retreating.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Leather100
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Thyme
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Labdanum
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron ignites the opening with a dry, papery spice that quickly pulls thyme’s green bite into the frame, while bergamot adds only a brief citric flicker before retreating. Lavender lands next, cool and slightly camphoraceous, stretching the aromatic thread across a warm labdanum heart that smells like blond tobacco soaked in pine sap. Leather emerges early and stays dominant, a matte black hide stitched to ambroxan’s mineral glow, creating a smoky, suede-like haze that muffles the herbs and resins. Over hours the composition softens into a skin-close leather-amber ember, projecting just enough to notice in passing but never shouting. Dry, shadowy, and urban, it feels best after dark, under leather jackets or wool coats in cool fall nights when city air sharpens every nuance.
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.