Rosso Afgano
Saffron flashes metallic-citrus bitterness against a velvety rose that arrives almost simultaneously, the two notes snapping together like a magnetic clasp.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Rose
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Vanilla
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron flashes metallic-citrus bitterness against a velvety rose that arrives almost simultaneously, the two notes snapping together like a magnetic clasp. Cedar needles push forward next, their dry splinters drawing green lines through the petals while patchouli adds a loamy, cocoa-brown thickness that keeps the rose from floating. After ninety minutes the tobacco leaf unfolds: humid, slightly honeyed, still carrying barn-yard creases that the vanilla smooths without erasing. Vanilla’s custard glow warms the tobacco while musk fuses every element to skin, turning the accord into a softly powdered, ambery leather that hovers close for hours. Projection stays polite—arm’s-length sillage—making it office-viable in cool weather, yet the persistent tobacco core keeps it evening-appropriate through fall and winter.
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.
