Leather Blend
Saffron and pepper open with heat — dry, threadbare, no sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Leather85
- Amber70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pepper
- Saffron
- Amber
- Rose
- Leather
- Papyrus
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and pepper open with heat — dry, threadbare, no sweetness. The pepper bites the nose first, then saffron's metallic-leathery quality rises through it and hands off to the heart.
Amber and rose come in together, but the rose isn't a centrepiece; it's an accent against the amber, which is doing most of the lifting. The result is warm, slightly powdery, with a rose that reads more like dried petal than fresh bloom.
Leather closes it, propped up by papyrus — that dry, papery, ink-adjacent woody note that keeps the leather from going plush. The drydown sits close to the skin and lasts. Cold-weather fragrance, evening into night, formal-leaning.
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.
