Dubhe Assoluto
Saffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that stains the rose petals deep crimson, turning the bloom into something almost medicinal.
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.
- Amber60
- Patchouli60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Rose
- Orris
- Guaiac Wood
- Vanilla
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that stains the rose petals deep crimson, turning the bloom into something almost medicinal. Orris arrives powdery and cool, its carrot-root facet bridging the fiery top to a cedar-guaiac plank that smells faintly singed. Vanilla swells through the wood, not dessert-sweet but the dusty sweetness of old cask staves, before sandalwood’s cream meets amber’s resin and patchouli’s cocoa-earth in a slow, resinous churn. Musk sheathes everything in a suede hush, letting the accord smolder rather than shout. Projection stays at arm’s length for six hours, perfect for cool autumn nights or a dark silk dinner.
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.
