Sultan
A creamy vanilla-cedar opening sets a warm, golden tone immediately, with the cedar dryness preventing the vanilla from going syrupy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Leather70
- Smoky60
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Cedar
- Jasmine
- Labdanum
- Myrrh
- Saffron
By the editors · 2 min readA creamy vanilla-cedar opening sets a warm, golden tone immediately, with the cedar dryness preventing the vanilla from going syrupy.
The heart introduces jasmine's indolic depth alongside labdanum's leathery, balsamic resin, the pairing reading as sticky-sweet and slightly animalic. The composition deepens steadily rather than evolving in clear stages.
The drydown is where the oriental character fully arrives: myrrh and saffron over the lingering vanilla-labdanum, with the saffron lending a leathery, slightly medicinal warmth and the myrrh adding a smoky resin. The overall reading is a dense oud-leather oriental, balsamic and warm with a long boozy-resinous trail. Projection is strong, longevity excellent, and the composition is built for cold-weather evenings and confident, intimate contexts.
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.
