Testa di Moro
Incense and pink pepper ignite the opening with a dry, papery crackle that quickly pulls leather forward, its tanned hide warmed by saffron’s hay-like iodine edge.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Pink Pepper
- Leather
- Saffron
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readIncense and pink pepper ignite the opening with a dry, papery crackle that quickly pulls leather forward, its tanned hide warmed by saffron’s hay-like iodine edge. Patchouli moves in underneath, supplying a muted cocoa earthiness that keeps the leather from turning glossy, while styrax adds a bitter-balsamic smoke that clings to the seams. Over hours the heart darkens: the saffron fades, the leather softens, and sandalwood rises with a creamy, nutmeg-tinged wood that absorbs the remaining resins. Dry-down stays close, a quiet accord of suede, sandal ashes and a faint pepper spark that lingers on cuffs. Projection remains reserved, perfect for cool office days or fall gallery nights when you want scent noticed only during a handshake.
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.