Ummagumma
Saffron's dry, slightly leathery warmth opens the composition without much fanfare, more atmospheric than aromatic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Labdanum
- Tobacco
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron's dry, slightly leathery warmth opens the composition without much fanfare, more atmospheric than aromatic. The transition into the heart is fast: sandalwood, leather, labdanum and tobacco stack into a dense, smoky-sweet centre that feels lived-in from the first half hour.
The base of olibanum, vanilla, tonka bean and cedar smooths the rough edges into a balsamic warmth, the tobacco staying dry rather than syrupy and the leather softened but never erased. Overall the character is a warm, resinous tobacco-leather with a soft amber-vanilla underglow, reading nocturnal and contemplative, with the kind of slow build that holds steady through a long evening.
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.
