Notorious Oud
Saffron's leathery dryness arrives first, edged with the bitter green snap of galbanum, giving the opening an austere, almost medicinal quality.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Animalic70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Galbanum
- Lavender
- Bulgarian Rose
- Civet
- Papyrus
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron's leathery dryness arrives first, edged with the bitter green snap of galbanum, giving the opening an austere, almost medicinal quality. The transition pivots quickly: lavender threads in with its herbal coolness, and a Bulgarian rose unfolds in deep, slightly jammy register against the leather already forming below.
The base leans frankly animalic with civet beside papyrus, the latter contributing a dry, paper-thin smokiness. There is no oud listed, but the saffron-civet-papyrus axis builds an oud-shaped impression. Overall the character is dark, dry and unmistakably leathery, with rose softening but never fully taming the animalic core. It reads serious and quite long-lasting.
Scent twins
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