My Oud
Saffron opens dry and leathery, its medicinal edge slicing through the green snap of ivy to create an austere top that feels more animal hide than plant.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Ivy
- Damask Rose
- Ambergris
- Olibanum
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens dry and leathery, its medicinal edge slicing through the green snap of ivy to create an austere top that feels more animal hide than plant. The heart is pure damask rose, but here the bloom is stripped of sweetness, pressed against castoreum and ambergris until it smells like fur soaked in salty seawater. As the base settles, labdanum and olibanum fuse into a tarry incense that clings to patchouli’s earthy core, while castoreum’s beaver-castoreum musk lingers on skin like old saddle leather left in humid air. Projection stays within arm’s length for eight hours, the scent growing quieter but darker, eventually becoming a second-skin whisper of resinous hide best suited to cool autumn nights and dimly lit rooms.
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.
