Hayat
Saffron opens with a metallic, slightly animalic edge, the kind that reads as dark rather than culinary.
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.
- Oud85
- Cinnamon80
- Amber75
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bitter Orange
- Saffron
- Cinnamon
- Amber
- Cardamom
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with a metallic, slightly animalic edge, the kind that reads as dark rather than culinary. Cardamom and cinnamon join quickly, both warm-spicy but not sweet — the amber in the heart keeps things resinous rather than sugary.
Cypriol and oud emerge in the base with a smoky, woody depth that grounds the spice without extinguishing it. Patchouli and cedar add structure and a slight earthiness underneath.
The result is a dense, Middle Eastern-leaning composition — layered spice over dry, smoky wood. It projects well in the first hours, then settles into a close but persistent resinous skin scent. Best suited to cool weather and evening contexts.
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.
