Sirrah
Sirrah opens on saffron alone — that one warm, slightly leathery spice setting the whole register.
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.
- Amber70
- Leather70
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Saffron
- Bulgarian Rose
- Ambergris
- Amber
- Cardamom
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readSirrah opens on saffron alone — that one warm, slightly leathery spice setting the whole register. The heart fans out from there: amber and rose at the center, cardamom adding green-pepper lift, osmanthus contributing a soft apricot-leather sheen that picks up the saffron and runs with it.
The drydown is where the perfume's name — a fixed star — feels earned. Birch tar and leather pull the composition into smoke, sandalwood and patchouli give it body, and white musk closes it down close to skin. The whole thing reads burnished — saffron and leather lit from within by amber, lasting well past most fragrances on the dresser. Cold-weather, evening, and a touch ceremonial. Confident close-quarter wear.
Scent twins
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