Carmina
Carmina opens with saffron's leathery, medicinal warmth softened by pink pepper's fizzy bite—a bright but serious introduction that announces itself without shouting.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Musky60
- Amber55
- Smoky55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Peony
- Violet
- May Rose
- Ambroxan
By the editors · 2 min readCarmina opens with saffron's leathery, medicinal warmth softened by pink pepper's fizzy bite—a bright but serious introduction that announces itself without shouting. The spice doesn't linger long before melting into a cushion of peony and violet, their powdery, green-tinged florals given backbone by rose. It's a floral heart that feels composed rather than exuberant, restrained in the way good tailoring is.
The base brings weight: myrrh and frankincense add resinous depth while ambroxan and musk provide that clean, skin-close glow Creed has leaned into in recent years. The amber here reads warm but transparent, never cloying. What emerges is a polished, modern take on ambery florals—something between a soft oriental and a powdered rose, suitable for someone who wants presence without drama. It wears close, blooms gently in warmth, and feels more evening than afternoon.
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.
