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.
- Salty70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Leather
- Ambergris
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA saffron opening that reads less medicinal, more honeyed and warm, bolstered by pink pepper's fizzy brightness. The spice doesn't grandstand—it settles quickly into a soft magnolia heart that feels creamy rather than floral in the usual sense, almost buttery against the skin. This is saffron handled with a light touch, more suggestion than statement.
As it dries down, a supple leather emerges, subtle and broken-in rather than sharp or animalic. The ambergris lends a gentle salinity that keeps the base from turning too sweet or powdery, while musk rounds everything into a second-skin closeness. The overall effect is polished but unpretentious—saffron without the weight of oud or rose to anchor it, making this feel more wearable than ceremonial.
Best suited to someone looking for a spice-forward scent that doesn't veer into either the souk or the boardroom. It sits close, wears easy, and fades gracefully.
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.
