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Cumin and saffron crack open the bottle in skin-warm intimacy — the cumin animalic and slightly sweaty, the saffron leathery and faintly medicinal, with clary sage adding a green herbal undertow that keeps the opening from feeling claustrophobic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Saffron
- Clary Sage
- Leather
- Jasmine
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readCumin and saffron crack open the bottle in skin-warm intimacy — the cumin animalic and slightly sweaty, the saffron leathery and faintly medicinal, with clary sage adding a green herbal undertow that keeps the opening from feeling claustrophobic.
Leather emerges quickly in the heart alongside jasmine and a quiet violet, the leather smoky and slightly bitter, the jasmine indolic enough to stay coherent with the cumin warmth. The middle feels carved and shadowy, more shoreline-at-dusk than urban polish.
Birch tar, papyrus, vetiver and tonka anchor the drydown in dry smoked earth, with the tonka softening the smoke just enough. Overall the perfume reads dramatic and skin-warm — a leathered cumin-saffron with quiet floral threads, sustained and intimate.
Scent twins
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