Radikal Lotus
Saffron and freesia open with a metallic, slightly honeyed brightness that sets an unusual tone — neither purely floral nor purely spiced.
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
- Rose50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Freesia
- Rose
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and freesia open with a metallic, slightly honeyed brightness that sets an unusual tone — neither purely floral nor purely spiced. The combination is cool and warm at the same time.
Rose emerges as the dominant heart, deepened by patchouli that adds an earthy, resinous weight. Vanilla in the base softens the patchouli's rougher edges, pulling everything toward a warmer, rounder finish.
The result is a dark floral grounded by patchouli and lifted by saffron's dryness. Rose stays identifiable throughout, but the interplay with earthy and sweet base notes gives this more structural depth than a straight floral.
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.
