Cuir Eternel
Neroli opens bright and soapy, a clean citrus-floral flash that cuts through the air.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Vanilla50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Saffron
- Guaiac Wood
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Leather
- Neroli
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli opens bright and soapy, a clean citrus-floral flash that cuts through the air. Saffron arrives quickly, its leathery, hay-like dryness folding the neroli into a muted yellow heart. Guaiac wood takes over in the base, pumping cool incense smoke through the saffron dust while Madagascar vanilla softens the edges with a quiet, woody cream. On skin the scent stays linear: the saffron-leather accord dominates from twenty minutes onward, the vanilla merely rounding the rough corners rather than turning the composition sweet. Projection remains polite, a skin-to-shirt radius that lasts office hours yet still whispers leather after dusk. Cool fall days and smart-casual settings fit best; heat flattens the neroli and cold mutes the wood.
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.
