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Ginger and saffron ignite the opening with a hot, slightly metallic spice that feels like toasted blades.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Oud80
- Smoky80
- Warm Spicy70
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Saffron
- Cumin
- Amberwood
- Oud
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and saffron ignite the opening with a hot, slightly metallic spice that feels like toasted blades. Cumin soon folds in, adding a sweaty, skin-like warmth that bridges the spices to the resinous base. Amberwood and oud fuse into a smoky, leathery plank while frankincense lifts a dry, peppery incense haze above it; patchouli contributes cocoa-dark earth, and castoreum supplies a honeyed, almost urinous growl that clings to clothes. Over three hours the spices recede, letting the animalic-oud accord dominate, yet a saffron-lit shimmer keeps the darkness from turning opaque. Sillage stays within arm’s length, projecting best in cool evenings when its musky resin trail can bloom without overheating.
Scent twins
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