Lumiere
Saffron ignites the opening with a dry, leathery sparkle that scatters bitter pollen over skin.
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
- Almond50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tuberose
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Tuberose
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron ignites the opening with a dry, leathery sparkle that scatters bitter pollen over skin. Tuberose surges next, its waxy petals unfolding a cool, camphor-green narcotic that almost overgrows the spice, turning the accord creamy-white and faintly medicinal. Patchouli arrives early in the heart, dragging earthy cocoa crumbs through the bloom, while clean white musk lifts the heaviness, aerating the flowers so they hover rather than sag. Over hours the saffron skin dries into a papery dust that clings to the musk, leaving a soft, grey-amber wash with only a ghost of tuberose’s latex glow. Projection stays polite, projecting roughly a forearm’s length for six hours before collapsing into a skin-whispering suede veil. Cool fall days and wool scarves fit its muted glow best.
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.
