Amber Oud Carbon Edition
An aromatic top — lavender, rosemary and bergamot together — that reads more barbershop than oriental for the first stretch.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Herbal50
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Rosemary
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Moss
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readAn aromatic top — lavender, rosemary and bergamot together — that reads more barbershop than oriental for the first stretch. The herbs are dry, the citrus thin, no sweetness anywhere yet.
Sage carries the heart almost alone, keeping the green-aromatic mood intact. The base finally pulls the perfume into chypre-adjacent territory: moss and vetiver under amber and cedar, the moss giving everything a damp earthy floor that the opening did not predict.
Despite the Amber Oud line's branding, this edition reads as an aromatic-mossy woody, not an oriental. A useful workday scent in cool weather, restrained and dry.
Scent twins
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