Ligno
Saffron stains the bergamot opening with a dry, leathery spice that quickly pushes the citrus aside.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Patchouli60
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Saffron
- Bergamot
- Ambergris
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron stains the bergamot opening with a dry, leathery spice that quickly pushes the citrus aside. Clary sage adds a cooling, slightly bitter green accent that keeps the top airy rather than heavy. The heart trades brightness for a salty ambergris glow, letting a clean, slightly sweet rose ride on mineral musk. Tonka bean arrives early, coupling with patchouli to form a creamy, softly tobacco-tinged base that stays close to skin. Projection is polite, a skin-to-shirt radius that lingers through a workday, gaining warmth as the musk amplifies. Cool fall days and smart-casual offices fit its muted richness best.
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.
