Sillage Royal 2017 Edition
Saffron ignites the opening with a dry, leathery spice that clings to the rising birch-tar smoke, while cardamom adds a fleeting green snap.
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.
- Leather80
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Smoke
- Cardamom
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron ignites the opening with a dry, leathery spice that clings to the rising birch-tar smoke, while cardamom adds a fleeting green snap. Cedar arrives early, its splinter-dry wood pushing the saffron’s iodine facet forward, then patchouli pours dark molasses earthiness that lets the rose read as a muted crimson stain rather than full bloom. Over hours the smoke thins into a hazy ember screened by grey musk, and the amber base glows softly like resinous skin warmth without overt sweetness. Projection stays arm-length for six hours, then settles into a leather-amber whisper that clings to scarves and coat collars. Cool autumn nights, gallery openings, or any setting where quiet authority matters more than loud trail.
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.
