Intense Oud
Saffron opens with its characteristic metallic-warm quality, adding immediate depth and a slightly leathery edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Earthy55
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Labdanum
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with its characteristic metallic-warm quality, adding immediate depth and a slightly leathery edge. The pyramid here is sparse, so saffron carries most of the early character without competition from citrus or lighter top notes.
Labdanum in the heart brings a resinous, dark amber quality — thick and slightly animalic. This is where the oud association forms: labdanum's heaviness combined with patchouli's earthiness in the base constructs a convincing oud-adjacent texture even without literal oud listed.
Sandalwood provides some creaminess beneath, softening the combination. The overall character is dense, resinous, and earthy — a heavy oriental leaning composition suited to cold weather and evening wear.
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.