Slow Explosions
**Slow Explosions** opens with the dry snap of saffron against leather, like parchment held over a candle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Leather75
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min read**Slow Explosions** opens with the dry snap of saffron against leather, like parchment held over a candle. The spice doesn't bloom so much as smolder, giving way to something darker—a woody accord that reads more like scorched cedar than polished furniture. There's an unexpected sweetness underneath, almost resinous, that keeps the composition from veering too austere.
As it settles, the leather becomes the anchoring element, but it's worn and lived-in rather than fresh from the tannery. The drydown holds a faint smokiness, the kind that clings to wool after an evening near a fireplace. It wears close and introspective, suited to cold-weather introspection or anyone drawn to fragrances that suggest story rather than spectacle.
Scent twins
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