Golden Oud
There is no top to track — the composition opens straight into its heart, where sandalwood and vetiver lay down a creamy-earthy wood-root pairing while patchouli adds dark damp depth and violet threads a sweet powdery flicker through.
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.
- Violet85
- Mossy70
- Earthy70
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Violet
- Oakmoss
- Musk
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readThere is no top to track — the composition opens straight into its heart, where sandalwood and vetiver lay down a creamy-earthy wood-root pairing while patchouli adds dark damp depth and violet threads a sweet powdery flicker through.
The combination reads as forest-floor with a flower in it: vetiver's grassy-rooty bitterness and patchouli's earthy chocolate balanced against violet's candied-petal sweetness, with sandalwood smoothing the seams. Despite the oud reference in the name, no oud appears in the listed pyramid — the perfume relies on patchouli and sandalwood for its eastern-coded warmth.
The drydown softens onto oakmoss and musk. Oakmoss pulls the whole construction damp and chypre-shaped, musk smooths into skin. Earthy, woody, slightly sweet, and built as a quietly mossy modern oriental.
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.