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Saffron threads open dry and leathery, releasing a bittersweet hay note that immediately signals spice rather than floral.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Nutmeg
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron threads open dry and leathery, releasing a bittersweet hay note that immediately signals spice rather than floral. Nutmeg folds in warm kitchen dustiness, its mace-like edge softening the saffron’s iodine snap while keeping the heart resolutely austere. Cedar arrives early, shaving the spices into clean wood curls and adding a faint pencil-sharpness that prevents cloying. Patchouli dominates the dry-down, earthier than sweet, anchoring the earlier dryness with cool forest loam that lingers close to skin for hours. Projection stays polite, creating a saffron-wood haze within arm’s length; best in cool weather when its muted warmth can read as elegant restraint rather than timidity.
Scent twins
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