Cuir Cavalier
Saffron and rose open with that distinctive Middle Eastern accord — saffron's leathery iodine pairing with the rose's deep red velvet, an opening already grown-up and dense.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Rose
- Orris
- Cypriol
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and rose open with that distinctive Middle Eastern accord — saffron's leathery iodine pairing with the rose's deep red velvet, an opening already grown-up and dense.
The heart layers iris and orris over cypriol's earthy smoke, with rose carrying through. The iris adds a powdered carrot-and-suede tone that bridges the rose to what's coming. There's a quiet animalic warmth threading through, never overt.
The base is the core: leather and oud working together, the leather creamy and the oud restrained, vanilla and tonka taking off any rough edges, cedar and musk grounding the wood. The smoky element is steady rather than aggressive. Overall the character is sumptuous cool-weather wear, evening-leaning, an oud-leather composition with floral elegance rather than barbarism.
Scent twins
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