Liquide
Saffron, black pepper, and bergamot open with a warm, slightly metallic brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Animalic60
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron, black pepper, and bergamot open with a warm, slightly metallic brightness. The saffron is prominent from the start, lending a signature rich and faintly animalic quality before cardamom adds a softer aromatic spice layer.
Jasmine and orange blossom bring a restrained white-floral element in the heart, though the spice and resin quickly assert dominance. Labdanum, ambroxan, and castoreum in the base produce a deep, animalic amber that anchors the composition with real presence. Cedar adds dry structure, patchouli contributes earthiness, and vanilla provides a barely-there sweetness.
The overall effect is dark and resinous — an oriental with animal warmth rather than gourmand sweetness, wearing close but projecting confidently.
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.
