Siren
Saffron opens warm and leathery, its metallic edge immediately announcing a serious, resinous trajectory.
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.
- Amber60
- Leather60
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Narcissus
- Orange Blossom
- Cedar
- Iris
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens warm and leathery, its metallic edge immediately announcing a serious, resinous trajectory. Narcissus follows with a dry, hay-like floral that sharpens the spice rather than softening it, creating a taut opening that feels more rugged than opulent. Orange blossom arrives early, its honeyed radiance briefly lifting the density before cedar’s clean wood shavings shear away any sweetness, letting iris powder the heart with a cool, violet-tinged chalk that keeps the composition austere. Sandalwood and oud fuse in the base, the sandalwood lending creamy continuity while oud provides a camphoraceous, slightly animalic growl that lingers close to skin. Amber spreads a translucent, resinous glaze that prevents the woods from turning brittle, and ambrette seeds add a muted musk that feels like worn suede.
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.
