Midnight Special
Cinnamon and black pepper hit first, with saffron's leathery dryness sharpening the spice profile into something heated rather than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Woody65
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Grapefruit
- Rose
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and black pepper hit first, with saffron's leathery dryness sharpening the spice profile into something heated rather than sweet. The opening reads dense and slightly smoky from the start. A grapefruit twist lifts briefly before being swallowed by the deeper material underneath.
The heart pivots to a dark rose, rich and slightly resinous, sitting against an oud-patchouli foundation that grows steadily through the wear. Vanilla in the base softens the smoke and adds a balsamic glow without turning gourmand. Overall the character is a warm-spicy oud-rose with smoky depth, leaning nocturnal and full-bodied, with consistent projection and a slow fade into resinous sweetness.
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.
