Era
Saffron opens Era with a dry, papery spice that immediately stains the skin like turmeric, announcing the leather accord before any floral heart appears.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Leather
- Myrrh
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens Era with a dry, papery spice that immediately stains the skin like turmeric, announcing the leather accord before any floral heart appears. The heart layers jasmine’s indolic creaminess against ylang-ylang’s banana-like sweetness, while iris contributes a cool, carrot-root starch that keeps the white flowers from turning cloying; together they form a muted floral leather that smells like suede gloves stored in a cosmetics drawer. Myrrh arrives early in the dry-down, pouring a smoky, licorice-tinged resin over the remaining amber, so the final aura is a dark, slightly medicinal hide rather than a cozy amber glow. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, then collapses to a skin-spiced whisper perfect for cool autumn evenings or layered under wool.
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.