Salvador by Salvador Dali (1992)
Salvador opens with a dry herbal bite — tarragon's anise-edged green riding bergamot — that signals an old-school masculine rather than anything modern.
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.
- Amber65
- Leather65
- Vanilla55
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readSalvador opens with a dry herbal bite — tarragon's anise-edged green riding bergamot — that signals an old-school masculine rather than anything modern.
The heart turns warmer and stranger: cinnamon laid across jasmine and rose, the spice keeping the florals from reading as feminine. It's the kind of mid-century construction where florals do structural work in a men's scent rather than soft duty.
The base is the real event — a deep, classical mossy-amber-leather drydown. Tonka and vanilla sweeten; oakmoss and patchouli ground; leather and amber add resinous warmth; cedar and musk close the circle. Eight notes thickly stacked. The composition wears like an ambery-leather chypre adjacent: persistent, warm, distinctly old-world. Cold-weather, evening, formal — and confidently unfashionable in the best sense.
Scent twins
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