Secrète Datura
Saffron and nutmeg open dry and warm-spicy, with heliotrope adding an almond-cherry powderiness and lily of the valley a clean dewy lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Floral80
- Leather70
- Iris60
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Heliotrope
- Lily of the Valley
- Nutmeg
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and nutmeg open dry and warm-spicy, with heliotrope adding an almond-cherry powderiness and lily of the valley a clean dewy lift. The opening is unusual — spice and powder simultaneously, neither dominant.
The heart turns lush. Jasmine and ylang-ylang stack creamy, indolic white-floralcy with a banana-warm tilt from the ylang. The composition gets noticeably heavier through this phase, with the saffron continuing to thread leather-spice underneath.
The base is where it lands: leather pairs with iris and sandalwood, the iris cool and rooty, leather smooth and slightly animalic, sandalwood creamy. Overall character is a saffron-floral with a leather-iris drydown, retro in mood, dense and slightly moody — datura-like in its narcotic floral-and-shadow register.
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.
