Sondos
Saffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that immediately stains the skin a deep ochre.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Tuberose50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Tuberose
- Rose
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that immediately stains the skin a deep ochre. Tuberose surges forward next, its buttery petals fleshed out by a sharp rose that keeps the white flower from turning creamy; together they ride the saffron’s tannic wake. Vanilla arrives early, sweetening the leather and letting the florals relax into a soft, suede-lined skin scent while patchouli provides a quiet earthy anchor that stops the confection from cloying. After two hours the bouquet folds into the suede, leaving a powdered, slightly salty leather that smells like a well-worn cashmere wrap stored in a rosewood drawer. Projection stays within arm’s length, ideal for cool autumn offices or intimate dinner dates where you want noticed but not announced.
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.
