Taif Imperial
Saffron stains the opening a dry, leathery crimson, while blackberry bleeds a tart purple juice that keeps the spice from turning dusty.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Caramel80
- Oud70
- Amber60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Blackberry
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Caramel
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron stains the opening a dry, leathery crimson, while blackberry bleeds a tart purple juice that keeps the spice from turning dusty. Cardamom’s cool-green snap bridges the fruit to bergamot’s brief citrus flicker, but within minutes the heart collapses into a single, thick caramel panel that lacquers everything with burnt-butter sweetness. The base is dominated by a medicinal oud whose camphor bite is softened by sandalwood’s creamy lactones and a salty ambergris wash that stops the caramel from clotting. As the sugar recedes, benzoin and amber create a warm, resinous glow that smolders close to skin for hours, projecting a quiet, resinous skin-scent aura rather than a loud trail. Cool evenings and smart-casual settings let the saffron-oud tension 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.
