Darkoud
Saffron opens dry and leathery, its medicinal edge sharpened by cardamom’s cool green bite while bergamot flashes briefly metallic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Smoky80
- Balsamic70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Myrrh
- Patchouli
- Saffron
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens dry and leathery, its medicinal edge sharpened by cardamom’s cool green bite while bergamot flashes briefly metallic. The heart is skipped, letting the base surge forward early: myrrh pours out a smoky, resinous thickness that blankets the saffron and turns the composition dark and tarry. Patchouli adds an earthy, slightly bitter cocoa facet that keeps the myrrh from becoming too sweet, while a ghost rose accord—built from the listed note—softens the smoke with a bruised-petal nuance that never turns powdery. Over hours the saffron leather steadies into a singed-wood glow, the myrrh condensing into a tar-on-skin veneer that projects a two-foot resinous halo. Projection stays moderate yet persistent, ideal for cool evenings or layered over a wool coat; heat would make the smoke cloy.
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.
