Smoke Show
Saffron and pink pepper open warm and slightly leathery — the saffron previewing the base from the first second, the pink pepper adding a quick crackle on top.
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.
- Smoky70
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Leather
- Rose
- Oud
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and pink pepper open warm and slightly leathery — the saffron previewing the base from the first second, the pink pepper adding a quick crackle on top. There's no citrus or floral lift to soften the entrance.
Leather and rose dominate the heart in a tight pairing — the rose dark and slightly bloody, the leather supple and smoke-tinged. The combination reads serious and sensual, with no gourmand or fresh distraction.
The base brings oud, vetiver, and cedar together into a smoky-woody floor under the leather. The drydown is dark, animalic, and slightly resinous — a focused leather-oud-rose composition that projects strong, lasts long, and unmistakably aims at evening or formal contexts in cool weather.
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.
