Oud Saffron
Vanilla opens thick and custard-like, immediately sweetening the skin before saffron arrives with its hay-leather nuance to cut the sugar.
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
- Woody50
- Vanilla50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Vanilla
- Saffron
- Patchouli
- Guaiac Wood
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readVanilla opens thick and custard-like, immediately sweetening the skin before saffron arrives with its hay-leather nuance to cut the sugar. The heart pairs that saffron against patchouli’s cocoa-earth: the spice gains a dusty, almost papery edge while the patchouli loses its chocolate thickness, both weaving into a dry, woody amber glow. Guaiac wood in the base keeps that dryness going, its smoky pencil-shaving facet locking the vanilla into a tarry ribbon that stays close to the body. Musk shepherds the fade, turning the accord into a soft, skin-staining haze where the saffron leather ghost lingers longest. Projection stays polite, a one-foot aura perfect for office or cool-weather travel; longevity clocks seven hours before it becomes a skin whisper.
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.
