Saffron Tobacco
Saffron opens dry and leathery, its iodic snap quickly cut by bergamot citrus brightness that keeps the spice from turning harsh.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Bergamot
- Guaiac Wood
- Tobacco
- Patchouli
- Guaiac Wood
- Cocoa
- Saffron
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens dry and leathery, its iodic snap quickly cut by bergamot citrus brightness that keeps the spice from turning harsh. The heart is skipped, letting guaiac wood step in early, carrying a cool pencil-shaving smoke that braids with the saffron’s papery facets. Cocoa arrives not as dessert but as bitter dark chocolate dust, softening the wood’s edges while letting tobacco leaf unfold slowly, brown and air-cured rather than syrupy. Patchouli anchors the later hours, earthy and slightly camphorous, tethering the sweeter tobacco so the scent never drifts into candied territory. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, then settles closer to skin as a warm woody skin scent. Cool autumn days and smart-casual offices are its natural habitat.
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.
