Santal
Cumin and saffron open immediately warm and a little sweaty, with the cumin lending an animalic prickle and the saffron a leathery, golden glow.
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
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Saffron
- Iris
- Musk
- Sandalwood
- Saffron
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCumin and saffron open immediately warm and a little sweaty, with the cumin lending an animalic prickle and the saffron a leathery, golden glow. The entrance is dense rather than airy.
Iris at the heart adds a cool, suedey-powdery contrast that tempers the spice but doesn't lighten it much — the composition stays in a dusky, skin-warm register. The expected sandalwood reading runs as a creamy-milky undertow throughout, even without it on the top list. Musk in the base smooths the drydown into a soft, intimate trail with hints of leathery oud-like depth, even though no oud is named. The overall character is a warm, slightly animalic woody with a powdered-iris core — intimate, dusky, close-wearing.
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.
