Palissandre Noir Secret I
Saffron stains the opening with a dry, leathery glow that turns the bright citrus of bergamot into something duskier.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron stains the opening with a dry, leathery glow that turns the bright citrus of bergamot into something duskier. Rose and orange blossom arrive quickly, their petals dusted with the spice so they read more brick-red than pink, while cedar in the heart keeps the structure angular and crisp. Patchouli adds a camphorous earthiness that anchors the florals without darkening them, preparing the runway for the base’s creamy sandalwood folded into labdanum’s molten, resinous sweetness. Vanilla never becomes dessert-like; instead it lacquers the wood, letting musk pull the whole accord into a second-skin glow that lingers close but persistent. Expect seven-hour longevity and polite projection that stays office-friendly yet quietly exotic, thriving in cool fall evenings or layered under a wool coat.
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.
