Dignified
Saffron and cardamom open sharply, with bergamot providing a thin citrus frame.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Soft Spicy70
- Rose60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Clove
- Rose
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and cardamom open sharply, with bergamot providing a thin citrus frame. The saffron reads metallic and slightly leathery from the start — no sweetness, just dry heat.
Clove and rose arrive in the heart, an austere pairing. The rose is not romantic here; it sits behind the spice and reads more as dry petal than full bloom. The combination leans darker than a typical rose-oud arrangement.
Oud anchors the base with woody density. The listed base is sparse, which means the oud carries most of the weight without leather or resin to cushion it. Sillage and longevity should be strong given the materials, but the composition stays disciplined rather than expansive.
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.
