Saffron Amber

By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens this composition with a dry, leathery spice accent that immediately pulls the bright lemon into a muted, slightly bitter citrus territory rather than fresh. The heart piles on powdery violet and iris, their cool starchiness amplifying the saffron’s hay-like facet while lily adds a clean, almost detergent lift that keeps the blend from turning dense. Cardamom appears twice: in the heart it reads as a sweet-heat flutter, but in the base it re-emerges drier, coupling with sandalwood to frame the amber core with soft wood and gentle resin. That amber accord never goes gooey; iris and violet powder persist, so the dry-down stays grey, dry, slightly mineral, like old silk. Projection sits at arm’s length for roughly six hours, then collapses into a skin-glow of saffron-tinted sandalwood.