Alfa
Saffron leads alongside clove and nutmeg, casting a dense, metallic spice cloud that doesn't soften quickly.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Smoky80
- Soft Spicy70
- Balsamic60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Saffron
- Clove
- Nutmeg
- White Musk
- Oud
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron leads alongside clove and nutmeg, casting a dense, metallic spice cloud that doesn't soften quickly. There's a richness here from the start — almost textile in texture, the kind of opening that reads as intentional weight rather than accident.
Jasmine enters in the heart but doesn't read as floral so much as a creamy counterbalance to the spice. Frankincense and oud build slowly beneath, introducing resinous smoke and depth without overwhelming the florid, spiced core.
White musk in the base keeps the skin connection alive while the oud and frankincense settle into a dry, quietly smoky finish. Dense and meditative, the composition wears close but projects in waves.
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.
