Kaori Bamboo
Saffron opens dry and leathery, its medicinal edge cooled by black currant's tart green bite.
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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Ozonic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Bamboo
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens dry and leathery, its medicinal edge cooled by black currant's tart green bite. The heart layers jasmine's indolic creaminess over iris and bamboo, creating a translucent green-floral accord that feels like steamed rice water. Cedar and amber gradually warm the composition, while tonka bean adds a faint almond sweetness that softens saffron's lingering dryness. The dry-down stays close to skin, a powdery iris-musk veil with cedar's clean pencil-shaving texture underneath. Projection remains office-appropriate for six hours, never shouting but persistently present. Spring office wear suits it best, where the green bamboo note reads as freshly laundered cotton rather than tropical vacation.
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.
