Special Oud
Leather opens thick and blackened, its oily tannin streaked by saffron’s dry iodine edge and a flash of peach skin that keeps the accord from turning tarry.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Saffron
- Peach
- Caramel
- Ginger
- Labdanum
- Pink Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readLeather opens thick and blackened, its oily tannin streaked by saffron’s dry iodine edge and a flash of peach skin that keeps the accord from turning tarry. A ribbon of caramel runs underneath, softening the hide while pink pepper sparks scatter across the surface, lifting the heart before ginger’s warm bite and labdanum’s resinous amber arrive to thicken the texture. Benzoin and vanilla double the caramel sweetness, yet patchouli’s earthy dust and a wash of clean musk prevent the base from cloying, settling instead into a dark, tacky leather panel rubbed with brown sugar. Projection stays within arm’s length for seven hours, best worn on cool fall evenings when its bittersweet skin scent feels lived-in rather than loud.
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.
