Nefs
The opening is a strange, heady collision—honey thickened with saffron and violet, then sharpened by sage and warmed by fig.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Sweet50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Saffron
- Honey
- Fig
- Violet
- Jasmine
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a strange, heady collision—honey thickened with saffron and violet, then sharpened by sage and warmed by fig. It's neither sweet nor green, but something in between, like walking into a spice merchant's shop where fruit has been left to ripen on wooden shelves. The effect is dense and oddly narcotic.
As it settles, jasmine and osmanthus soften the edges while nutmeg adds a dusty warmth. The florals don't bloom so much as smolder, hemmed in by cinnamon and leather that arrive surprisingly fast. By the drydown, oud and amber anchor everything into something resinous and skin-close, with vanilla tempering the wood without making it sweet.
Nefs feels like an Ottoman library at dusk—ornate, layered, unapologetically rich. It wears heavy but not loud, best suited to someone comfortable with complexity and unafraid of projection. Not an everyday scent, but that seems intentional.
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.
