Dopamine
Lavender, saffron, and nutmeg open in a layered aromatic-spice chord.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Sweet55
- Vanilla55
- Amber55
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Saffron
- Nutmeg
- Vanilla
- Agarwood
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readLavender, saffron, and nutmeg open in a layered aromatic-spice chord. Lavender brings cool herbal sharpness; saffron adds a leathery-medicinal warmth that immediately signals oud; nutmeg contributes a powdery warm-spice prickle. The opening reads dense and dramatic, with no fresh phase.
Vanilla and agarwood form the heart. Vanilla coats the agarwood's dry barnyard-and-medicinal complexity in cream, softening the oud without erasing it. The middle pulls the composition into sweet-oud territory in the modern Middle-East-meets-Europe register.
Tonka bean, patchouli, and musk anchor the base. Tonka adds hay-vanilla sweetness; patchouli grounds in earthy purple depth; musk softens the seams. Sweet oud-lavender-vanilla amber — cold-weather flattering, evening-leaning, dramatic in register.
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.
