War of the Roses
Saffron dusts bitter-orange zest with metallic leather, the two notes snapping open like a green rose stem cut.
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.
- Floral80
- Amber70
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Orange
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron dusts bitter-orange zest with metallic leather, the two notes snapping open like a green rose stem cut. Lily-of-the-valley’s watery bells slide beneath a dense velvet rose heart, turning the spice’s aridity into humid petals. Sandalwood arrives early, its creamy grain pulling the floral oil down onto skin while amber liquefies the wood into glowing resin. Musk sheathes the base in clean skin salt, stopping the composition from becoming syrupy and keeping the rose transparent rather than jammy. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, making it office-safe yet quietly opulent through cool spring days and air-conditioned evenings.
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.
