Sultan Rouge
Saffron flashes first, its leathery iodine edge slicing through the honeyed jasmine bloom to create a bittersweet floral-iodine accord that feels almost salty.
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
- White Floral50
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Saffron
- Ambergris
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron flashes first, its leathery iodine edge slicing through the honeyed jasmine bloom to create a bittersweet floral-iodine accord that feels almost salty. The heart trades petals for oceanic ambergris, a grey-amber note that quiets the jasmine and turns the composition dry, mineral, faintly animalic without barnyard weight. Cedar in the base keeps the structure crisp, shaving off any residual sweetness so the dry-down stays clean, woody, slightly smoky. It wears close, projecting no farther than forearm distance, yet the ambergris lingers on fabric for hours. Cool evenings and smart-casual offices suit its restrained exoticism; chilly fall air sharpens the saffron-cedar dialogue.
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.
