Tobacco Blaze
Saffron and neroli arrive in a bright, slightly medicinal flash—sharper than the name suggests.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Amber60
- Woody55
- Sweet50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Saffron
- Lily of the Valley
- Amber
- Cedar
- Apricot
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and neroli arrive in a bright, slightly medicinal flash—sharper than the name suggests. There's an oddly clean quality at first, lily of the valley lending a soapy freshness that delays the tobacco promise. The heat builds slowly rather than blazing outright.
As it settles, apricot softness emerges alongside amber warmth, creating a sweet-resinous center that finally hints at something smoldering. Cedar adds structure while violet contributes a powdery, old-fashioned elegance. The leather underneath reads more polished than rugged, like worn gloves rather than saddles.
This is tobacco by suggestion rather than declaration—no pipe smoke or raw leaf, but rather the idea of it filtered through amber and dried fruit. Pleasant for those seeking something vaguely oriental and gently spiced without overwhelming richness. Wears closer to skin than the dramatic name implies.
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.
