Les Nombres d'Or - Violette Fumée
Saffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that immediately sets a muted, dusk-like tone.
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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.
- Balsamic90
- Soft Spicy70
- Leather60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Clary Sage
- Opoponax
- Cashmeran
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that immediately sets a muted, dusk-like tone. Clary sage enters next, its bittersweet green-herbal facets lifting the saffron while adding a faint lavender nuance that keeps the heart airy rather than heavy. Opoponax slowly swells underneath, pushing a soft, incense-tinged balsamic sweetness that smooths the earlier dryness and adds gentle smokiness. Cashmeran in the base wraps the composition in a clean, musky wood veneer, extending the blend’s fuzzy texture for hours. Projection stays polite, creating a translucent scented aura perfect for close encounters or cool spring evenings when you want intrigue without announcement.
Scent twins
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