Bittersweet Symphony
Cocoa dominates the heart with a dry, bitter cocoa-powder edge that immediately darkens the saffron’s hay-like leather nuance.
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.
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cocoa
- Saffron
- Oud
- Mysore Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readCocoa dominates the heart with a dry, bitter cocoa-powder edge that immediately darkens the saffron’s hay-like leather nuance. That cocoa-saffron pairing rides atop Mysore sandalwood, its creamy lactones softening the cocoa’s roughness while letting the wood’s rosy, milky facets peek through. As the base settles, oud oud adds a camphoraceous, slightly animal smoke that laces the sandalwood, turning the earlier cocoa cream into something resinous and almost tarry. The dry-down keeps the cocoa alive, now fused with oud’s balsamic leather, so the scent stays bittersweet rather than dessert-like. Projection stays close, a skin-level veil that lasts eight hours and favors cool evenings or layered fall knits.
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.
