Oud
Saffron opens dry and slightly leathery, with a faintly metallic-medicinal twang that reads warm-bitter.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Smoky70
- Leather55
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Myrrh
- Styrax
- Oud
- Guaiac Wood
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens dry and slightly leathery, with a faintly metallic-medicinal twang that reads warm-bitter. The entry signals oud immediately, even before the base arrives.
Myrrh and styrax in the heart deepen the resinous register: myrrh adding a churchy, slightly bitter incense and styrax bringing a smoky-balsamic, leather-adjacent depth. The composition stays dark and dense throughout, with the saffron's leathery thread persisting.
Oud, guaiac wood, and patchouli form the base. The oud reads more medicinal-smoky than barnyard, with guaiac's tar-rubber character extending the smoke and patchouli's earthy bitterness anchoring everything. The drydown is a tight, austere oud-resin composition with leather-smoke holding longest. Cooler weather, evening wear, and oud devotees.
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.
