Wardasina (Rosso Afgano)
Opens with a saffron-tinted rose — leathery, slightly metallic, the petals already feeling sun-baked rather than dewy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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 readOpens with a saffron-tinted rose — leathery, slightly metallic, the petals already feeling sun-baked rather than dewy.
The heart deepens as cedar and patchouli wrap around the rose, lending a dry woody backbone that keeps the floral from going syrupy. As the composition settles, tobacco takes the foreground in the drydown, dry and faintly honeyed, with vanilla rounding the bitter edges and musk smoothing everything into a steady cloud. Texture is plush and velvety, projection is strong in the first hours then settles into a close warm aura, the temperature reads warm and dim. It evokes a worn leather book held open near a low lamp.
Overall a tobacco-rose composition with a leathery saffron spine.
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.
