Seta
Saffron opens leather-warm and slightly metallic, with lemon and bergamot adding a clean citrus snap that softens the spice without erasing it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Myrrh
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens leather-warm and slightly metallic, with lemon and bergamot adding a clean citrus snap that softens the spice without erasing it. The first impression is dry-spice over citrus rather than the reverse.
The heart pairs myrrh's anise-bitter resin with ylang-ylang's banana-creamy floralcy. The two together produce an unusual chord — one half balsamic-bitter, one half lush-tropical — that gives the composition its character.
The base smooths into sandalwood, benzoin, amber, and vanilla — a creamy resinous foundation, sweet but not gourmand, with the myrrh continuing to thread bitterness through the warmth. Overall character is a saffron-resin amber with a fleshy floral middle, dense and slightly Middle-Eastern in register, suited to cooler weather and evening wear rather than casual daytime.
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.
