Dark Rebel Rider
Dark Rebel Rider opens with a dry, almost metallic saffron that feels more like worn leather than spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Patchouli75
- Leather70
- Smoky65
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Orris
- Olibanum
- Labdanum
- Osmanthus
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readDark Rebel Rider opens with a dry, almost metallic saffron that feels more like worn leather than spice. It's a raw, restless introduction that avoids sweetness, setting a tone of deliberate roughness. As it settles, orris lends a faintly powdered quality while olibanum adds resinous depth and osmanthus contributes a subtle apricot-skin warmth. The florals never bloom fully—they stay muted, edged with smoke.
The base anchors everything in earthy patchouli and cedar, conjuring dusty roads and aged wood rather than clean forests. There's a persistent moodiness here, a deliberate refusal to polish itself up. It suits someone comfortable with contradiction: refined materials worn casually, a certain elegance that doesn't announce itself.
This fragrance doesn't chase mass appeal. It's for those drawn to scent as atmosphere rather than statement, who appreciate the tension between soft and gritty, and don't mind smelling a little lived-in.
Scent twins
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