Bianco Eterno
Saffron opens with its characteristic warm metallic richness, the sole top note and immediately distinctive.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Lily of the Valley
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with its characteristic warm metallic richness, the sole top note and immediately distinctive. Lily of the valley appears in the heart with a light, watery floral quality that softens saffron's intensity without erasing it. Tonka bean, amber, and vanilla build the base into a dense, warm sweetness, while musk provides a clean skin-close finish.
The saffron-lily-of-the-valley pairing is an unusual one — a spiced-metallic top over a delicate watery floral, then settling into a rich vanilla-amber drydown. The contrast between the lily's freshness and the warmth of the base creates mild tension. A warm-weather blind spot — this reads better in autumn or winter when the tonka-vanilla base feels cozy rather than heavy.
Scent twins
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