Penguin 2024
Saffron opens dry and papery, its leathery edge immediately joined by pink pepperpink pepper that crackles like static electricity over skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Soft Spicy60
- Fresh50
- Aquatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Sandalwood
- Suede
- Musk
- Sandalwood
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens dry and papery, its leathery edge immediately joined by pink pepperpink pepper that crackles like static electricity over skin. The two heart materials fuse into a muted, slightly oily spice that feels more textile than culinary. Sandalwood arrives as a pale, cream-colored wood, softening the spice while suede lays down a cool, matte skin-like layer that blurs edges. Musk fills the spaces, not animalic but clean and faintly salty, extending the suede effect into a second-skin aura. Projection stays within handshake distance for six hours, then collapses to a whisper of warm wood and clean musk that clings to fabric. Wear it to the office in cool weather when you want texture without statement.
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.



