The Rose
Saffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that stains the bergamot’s sparkle into a muted, coppery glow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Osmanthus
- Bergamot
- Bulgarian Rose
- Cedar
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that stains the bergamot’s sparkle into a muted, coppery glow. Bulgarian rose blooms next, its petals dusted with the apricot fuzz of osmanthus, while cedar slices the floral heart into clean, blond wood shavings. Vetiver and patchouli anchor the base: the first adds cool, rooty smoke, the second a bittersweet chocolate earth that keeps the rose from going sweet. On skin the saffron lingers longest, turning the later woods into supple parchment rubbed with dried petals. Projection stays polite, a scented handshake rather than a cloud; it feels tailor-made for crisp spring offices or cool summer weddings.
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.
