Desire Extreme
Saffron, blood orange, and bergamot open as a warm citrus-spice combination — the saffron leathery and slightly metallic from the first breath, the blood orange juicy and slightly bitter, bergamot smoothing the join.
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.
- Leather75
- Woody55
- Sweet50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Blood Orange
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Leather
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron, blood orange, and bergamot open as a warm citrus-spice combination — the saffron leathery and slightly metallic from the first breath, the blood orange juicy and slightly bitter, bergamot smoothing the join. The opening sets a deliberate, contemplative tone.
Clary sage carries the heart alone. The sage is herbal and slightly musky, providing an aromatic bridge between the spiced top and the dark base. It's a restrained middle, letting the saffron pulse through and the base start to build.
Leather, vetiver, amber, and patchouli form the base. The drydown is the destination: a smooth, slightly smoky leather wrapped in vetiver's earthy bitterness, amber warmth, and patchouli's depth. Projection is steady, longevity strong, the overall character polished and masculine-coded.
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.



