06 Vita
Saffron crackles first, its leathery iodine edge slicing through jasmine’s waxy petals to create a bittersweet floral-iodine accord that feels simultaneously sun-warmed and slightly medicinal.
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.
- Iris70
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Saffron
- Amber
- Iris
- Musk
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron crackles first, its leathery iodine edge slicing through jasmine’s waxy petals to create a bittersweet floral-iodine accord that feels simultaneously sun-warmed and slightly medicinal. The heart thickens as amber resin melts into iris butter, the latter’s cool carrot-seed facet quieting the jasmine and turning the composition powdery while musk stretches everything into a suede-like skin veil. Oakmoss arrives early, its bitter green bite partnering with birch tar to produce a muted smoky leather that shadows the amber rather than overpowering it. Sandalwood slips in last, its creamy lactones softening the tar and moss so the dry-down hovers between grey leather and talcum-powdered wood. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, making it office-safe yet quietly distinctive through the middle phase. Cool autumn days and smart-casual settings let the iris-leather dialogue speak without shouting.
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.
