Saffron Rose
Cinnamon opens hot and dusty, its bark-oil bite immediately lacquered by saffron’s leathery iodine, while a crimson rose absolute blooms underneath, sweetening the spice into a lacquered crimson glaze.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Cinnamon80
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Saffron
- Rose
- Oud
- Myrrh
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon opens hot and dusty, its bark-oil bite immediately lacquered by saffron’s leathery iodine, while a crimson rose absolute blooms underneath, sweetening the spice into a lacquered crimson glaze. Within minutes the heart trades petals for smoke: oud’s medicinal camphor rises through myrrh’s church-incense haze, and dry blond tobacco leaf adds a hay-like rasp that keeps the rose from turning jammy. The base sinks into sandalwood’s creamy lactones first, then guaiac’s sharper pencil-shaving wood, both glued down by labdanum’s resinous amber and a whisper of castoreum that reads as worn-in leather rather than skank. Over four hours the cinnamon–saffron veil drifts lower, letting the tobacco-oud tandem dominate until a fuzzy amber glow remains on skin.
Scent twins
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