Just Before
Saffron, lemon, and bergamot open with an unusual citrus-spice pairing—saffron's leathery-metallic warmth tints the lemon and bergamot, giving the first minutes an immediate ambered direction rather than a bright one.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Myrrh
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron, lemon, and bergamot open with an unusual citrus-spice pairing—saffron's leathery-metallic warmth tints the lemon and bergamot, giving the first minutes an immediate ambered direction rather than a bright one.
Myrrh and ylang-ylang carry the heart into a creamy-resinous middle. Myrrh contributes a slightly bitter, balsamic edge while ylang-ylang adds a banana-creamy floral. The spice-resin-floral combination is the most characterful stretch.
Sandalwood, benzoin, amber, and vanilla close the composition with a warm, sweet, slightly smoky drydown. Overall the arc is amber-saffron-vanilla with a yellow-floral accent—projection moderate to strong, suited to cool weather and evening rotation. Reads as a comforting oriental-leaning structure.
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.
