Belle Bête
Saffron and hazelnut open together in an unusual pairing — the saffron's dry, slightly metallic edge against the hazelnut's nutty warmth, with iris adding a cool, powdery counterpoint.
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.
- Patchouli60
- Earthy60
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Hazelnut
- Iris
- Clary Sage
- Vetiver
- Cashmeran
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and hazelnut open together in an unusual pairing — the saffron's dry, slightly metallic edge against the hazelnut's nutty warmth, with iris adding a cool, powdery counterpoint. Clary sage introduces a faint herbal bitterness that keeps the opening from going sweet.
Vetiver, patchouli, and coffee build the heart into something earthy and dense. Cashmeran adds a diffuse, woody-musky softness beneath the more assertive coffee and patchouli. Atlas cedar gives the structure some linearity.
Civet, castoreum, and suede in the base push the composition into animalic leather territory — warm, slightly feral, and persistent. This is a complex, dark fragrance with deliberate tension between its softer and rougher elements.
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.
