The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Tobacco50
- Powdery50
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Ginger
- Suede
- Leather
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with a metallic, slightly medicinal edge — dry and sharp before anything softer arrives. It reads more mineral than spiced here, sitting cleanly rather than pushing warmth.
Ginger joins in the heart alongside suede, and the combination works to soften the saffron's austerity. The suede accord reads smooth and brushed, without the rawhide quality some leather-forward perfumes lean into. Ginger provides low-level heat without sweetness.
The base settles into leather and musk — close and restrained, with little sillage. It finishes dry and slightly animalic, not heavy. The overall character is minimal and cool-leaning for a leather fragrance, better suited to skin than to projection.
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.