Cuir Cafe
Saffron opens with a dry, papery spice that immediately stains the roasted coffee bean beneath it, creating a bitter-aromatic accord that smells like espresso grounds scraped off tanned hide.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Amber60
- Warm Spicy50
- Sweet50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Coffee
- Leather
- Suede
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with a dry, papery spice that immediately stains the roasted coffee bean beneath it, creating a bitter-aromatic accord that smells like espresso grounds scraped off tanned hide. The heart swaps bitterness for hide: leather arrives stiff and mineral while suede brings a powdered, almost chocolaty nap that softens the seam between skin and fabric. By the dry-down, amber has melted the remaining coffee oils into a glowing, resinous ember that clings close to the body, letting the earlier animalic rasp settle into a wearable skin musk. Projection stays within handshake distance; it reads relaxed but deliberate, ideal for cool autumn days when you want a scent that suggests worn jacket lining rather than statement perfume.
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.
