Gentry Jockey Club
Saffron opens with a dry, papery spice that sharpens the immediate tobacco leaf, while a dark rose folds into the cured leaf rather than standing apart.
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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.
- Tobacco90
- Leather80
- Rose60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Tobacco
- Rose
- Leather
- Birch
- Bulgarian Rose
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with a dry, papery spice that sharpens the immediate tobacco leaf, while a dark rose folds into the cured leaf rather than standing apart. Birch tar arrives early, welding its creosote edge to saffron-tinted tobacco and forming a hard leather carapace that mutes the rose’s petals. Bulgarian rose re-emerges in the heart, now soaked in patchouli’s cocoa-brown earth, softening the tarry crackle enough to reveal a velvety red core beneath the smoke. Tonka injects warm hay and almond bitters, cushioning birch’s tar and letting sandalwood spread a creamy screen that keeps the accord from turning harsh. Ambergris salts the dry-down, lifting vetiver’s rooty snap so the leather-tobacco core hovers just above skin, exhaling a quiet animalic heat for hours. Moderate projection, perfect for cool evenings when you want old-club intimacy without shouting.
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.



