Oud Mafia
Saffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that immediately darkens the nutmeg and thyme into a bitter-green swirl.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Leather60
- Warm Spicy50
- Aquatic50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Thyme
- Nutmeg
- Incense
- Oud
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that immediately darkens the nutmeg and thyme into a bitter-green swirl. The heart fuses frankincense and oud into a resinous, tarry smoke that feels like charred oud chips still glowing from a censer. Vetiver slices through the tar with raw earth, while patchouli thickens the base into a loamy, almost chocolate darkness that keeps the incense embers smoldering. Over four hours the saffron leather accord recedes, letting the oud-resin core dominate skin-close for the rest of the wear. Projection stays within arm’s length, ideal for cool evenings or a fireside lounge. The composition is linear once the top burns off, so expect steady smoky oud rather than shape-shifting drama.
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.
