Taraf Black
Saffron and agarwood open with a dry, leathery smoke that grips the bergamot, stripping it of sweetness and turning the citrus into a metallic spark.
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.
- Woody70
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Agarwood
- Bergamot
- Amber
- Rose
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and agarwood open with a dry, leathery smoke that grips the bergamot, stripping it of sweetness and turning the citrus into a metallic spark. The heart folds ambergris-style amber around a muted rose; the resin’s briny warmth softens the oud’s medicinal edge while letting the wood stay sharp. As the base settles, white musk sheens the composition with a laundered cleanliness that lifts the oakmoss and lets tonka add only a bare almond rounding, so the scent never becomes creamy. Wear time stretches eight hours, projecting an arm’s-length trail for the first three before collapsing into a skin-close, mossy wood haze that still carries the saffron’s papery rust. Cool fall evenings and outdoor night events fit its resinous darkness best.
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.
