Era
Saffron opens with a warm-spicy shimmer that quickly melds into a powdery floral heart of jasmine and iris.
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.
- Leather90
- Oud70
- Warm Spicy60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Leather
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with a warm-spicy shimmer that quickly melds into a powdery floral heart of jasmine and iris. Ylang-ylang adds a creamy yellow-floral richness that bridges the transition toward the leather base. Oud and myrrh deepen the composition with animalic and balsamic textures, while amber provides a sweet resinous foundation. Leather remains prominent throughout the dry-down, creating a sophisticated contrast with the floral elements. Projection starts moderately strong but settles into an intimate skin scent after several hours. Longevity extends well into the evening, making it suitable for cool weather formal occasions.
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.




