Rose Oud
Saffron stains the rose heart a deep crimson, its leathery iodaceus edge turning petals slightly bitter and medicinal.
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.
- Animalic80
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Rose
- Guaiac Wood
- Styrax
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron stains the rose heart a deep crimson, its leathery iodaceus edge turning petals slightly bitter and medicinal. The bloom is brief; guaiac wood quickly pulls the scent into smoldering territory, its smoky grain crackling like green logs on a low fire. Styrax and castoreum flood the base with warm, almost urinous fur, stretching the embers into a dark animalic skin-print that lingers for hours. Projection stays within arm’s length, tracing a leather strap rubbed with singed rose and beeswax. Cool evenings amplify the resinous growl, while summer heat flattens it to a dull smudge.
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.
