Empire Des Sens
Empire Des Sens opens with saffron, orange blossom, and rose — a warm, floral-spiced opening that immediately reads rich and oriental.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Smoky60
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Orange Blossom
- Rose
- Oud
- Patchouli
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readEmpire Des Sens opens with saffron, orange blossom, and rose — a warm, floral-spiced opening that immediately reads rich and oriental. The orange blossom provides sweetness; saffron adds a metallic, dry thread.
Oud and patchouli in the heart deepen the composition considerably. Oud is dark and woody; patchouli brings earthiness. Together they shift the fragrance from floral into darker, more resinous territory.
Incense, frankincense, amber, and vanilla in the base create a deeply balsamic, resinous finish. Frankincense and incense both contribute cool-smoky depth; amber and vanilla add sweetness and warmth. This is a dense, opulent oriental — heavy projection, slow drydown, firmly for evening or cold weather.
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.
