L'Intense
With no top notes declared the composition skips the citrus preamble and opens directly in the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Orange Blossom
- Iris
- Nutmeg
- Tonka Bean
- Guaiac Wood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readWith no top notes declared the composition skips the citrus preamble and opens directly in the heart. Saffron leads — leathery, slightly metallic, with that characteristic dried-spice depth — paired against orange blossom for floral softness and iris for cosmetic dryness.
Nutmeg threads warmth through the spice register, adding a softer-rounded counterpoint to the saffron's edge. The middle is dense and slightly powdery, with a clear ambery-spicy direction.
The drydown is the warm landing the heart promised: tonka bean and vanilla build sweetness, amber adds resinous depth, and guaiac wood brings a smoky-dry undercurrent that keeps the gourmand sweetness from going soft. Overall the impression is a warm spicy-amber composition with leather-adjacent saffron at its center, suited to cool-weather evening wear.
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.
