Myrrh Casati
Saffron and pink pepper arrive first — the saffron leathery and slightly metallic, the pepper adding a dry, resinous bite.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Guaiac Wood
- Myrrh
- Benzoin
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Patchouli
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and pink pepper arrive first — the saffron leathery and slightly metallic, the pepper adding a dry, resinous bite. Cardamom threads through with cool spice, giving the opening a Middle Eastern market quality without being literal about it.
Myrrh is the structural backbone here, bringing a slightly medicinal, smoky bitterness that benzoin softens into something more balsamic. Patchouli adds depth and a faint earthiness, while guaiac wood contributes a pencil-shaving smokiness underneath.
The result is a dense, dark resinous composition: smoky-balsamic at the core, spiced at the edges. There is no lightness or freshness to speak of. It wears best in cold weather for evening occasions that tolerate some intensity.
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.
