Amber
Saffron opens dry and leathery, its metallic edge immediately threaded with a thin ribbon of birch-tar smoke that clings to the skin like singed silk.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Smoke
- Frankincense
- Amber
- Smoke
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens dry and leathery, its metallic edge immediately threaded with a thin ribbon of birch-tar smoke that clings to the skin like singed silk. Frankincense arrives early, its cool citrus-peel facet lifting the saffron while the heart’s own smoke accord doubles down, turning the composition into matte grey suede dusted with incense ash. Amber is built here from labdanum and benzoin rather than vanilla, so the middle phase stays resinous and slightly bitter, letting the tonka bean in the base add only a muted almond softness that never turns sugary. Over two hours the smoke relaxes into a low ember, the saffron leather mellows, and the whole frame sits closer to skin, projecting a quiet campfire aura rather than a room-filling cloud.
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.
