Glow
Saffron lands first, its hay-dust bitterness slicing through air before a matte leather panel rises, stitched tight to a dry rose that sheds petals rather than bloom.
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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Leather
- Rose
- Vetiver
- Raspberry
- Cashmeran
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron lands first, its hay-dust bitterness slicing through air before a matte leather panel rises, stitched tight to a dry rose that sheds petals rather than bloom. The heart keeps the trio angular: no sweetness enters, only the rose’s vegetal green edge softening the hide’s tannic pull while saffron’s iodized trace flickers like a warning light. Hours in, vetiver splits the difference, its smoky root anchoring the flayed leather while raspberry adds a quiet crimson stain and cashmeran supplies a blond-wood hum that blurs corners without adding warmth. Projection stays within arm’s length; the scent remains cool, papery, intentionally desaturated. It performs best in mild dry weather where the lack of balsam or amber won’t read as hollow.
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.
