Sidus
Black pepper, raspberry, saffron, cardamom, and nutmeg open in a packed spice-fruit tangle — the pepper dry-biting, the raspberry tart-sweet, the saffron dry-medicinal, the cardamom and nutmeg adding warm camphorous edges.
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.
- Leather70
- Caramel60
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Raspberry
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper, raspberry, saffron, cardamom, and nutmeg open in a packed spice-fruit tangle — the pepper dry-biting, the raspberry tart-sweet, the saffron dry-medicinal, the cardamom and nutmeg adding warm camphorous edges. It's an immediately complex opening.
The heart is rich: sandalwood creamy, leather suede-soft, Bulgarian rose and rose adding jammy floral depth, cedar pencil-dry, caramel binding everything in a sticky warmth. The rose-leather-caramel braid is the signature — plush and slightly gothic.
Oakmoss, ambergris, frankincense, and olibanum settle the base. Moss earthy, ambergris salty-radiant, the resins cool-smoky underneath. Overall character: a saffron-rose-leather with a caramel sweetness and a smoky-mossy close. Strong projection, long opulent drydown.
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.




