Tiger
Saffron and cardamom open warm and metallic, the saffron carrying its leathery-spice glow and cardamom adding a cool green lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Smoky60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Incense
- Ambrette
- Vetiver
- Papyrus
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and cardamom open warm and metallic, the saffron carrying its leathery-spice glow and cardamom adding a cool green lift. The opening sets a serious tone — dry, ambery-spicy rather than sweet.
Incense and ambrette at the heart deepen the smoky-balsamic character. Incense lends churchy resin, ambrette a soft musky-floral powder that keeps the smoke from harshness. The transition feels considered, with little floral or fruit to interrupt.
Vetiver, papyrus, and suede close dry and tactile — papyrus's paper-warmth, vetiver's rooty grounding, suede's leather hum. Overall: a smoked saffron-leather with an incense backbone, gender-neutral and confidently restrained. Suited to 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.
