Scandal Gold
Saffron and honey open with a syrupy, slightly medicinal pulse — the same boozy-spiced register Scandal has worked since launch, here pushed darker.
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.
- Honey70
- Patchouli60
- Rose55
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Honey
- Cardamom
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and honey open with a syrupy, slightly medicinal pulse — the same boozy-spiced register Scandal has worked since launch, here pushed darker. Cardamom and pink pepper add a dry crackle that keeps the sweetness from going sticky.
The heart turns rosy and floral, with jasmine and ylang-ylang rounding out a thick, almost oily middle. Patchouli, sandalwood and a smoke-tinged leather anchor the drydown; benzoin and the lingering honey keep a candied amber halo around it.
Dense and projecting; suited to cold-weather evenings, formal dress, and rooms you want to take over rather than enter quietly.
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.
