Mandragola
Opens with a leathery saffron prickle wrapped in lime and bergamot — bright on the very surface but already shadowed underneath, the citrus reading almost medicinal against the spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Leather60
- Smoky55
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Lime
- Bergamot
- Petitgrain
- Guaiac Wood
- Bulgarian Rose
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a leathery saffron prickle wrapped in lime and bergamot — bright on the very surface but already shadowed underneath, the citrus reading almost medicinal against the spice.
The heart turns smokier as guaiac wood and petitgrain meet a quiet Bulgarian rose and a thread of jasmine, the florals less perfumed than smoldering. Musk drifts through to soften the edges. The drydown is where the composition fully lands: oud and sandalwood take over, joined by vetiver and a balsamic amber, with vanilla offering a faint sweetness rather than a dessert layer. Texture is dense, projection is moderate to strong for hours, the temperature reads warm and dim. It evokes a candle going out.
Overall a leathery oud composition with a saffron-rose spine.
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.
