Oud After Dark
Saffron, apricot, and osmanthus open with a fruity, slightly leathery richness — the osmanthus bridging floral and stone-fruit registers in a way that feels immediately opulent.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Smoky65
- Rose55
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Apricot
- Osmanthus
- Oud
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Plum
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron, apricot, and osmanthus open with a fruity, slightly leathery richness — the osmanthus bridging floral and stone-fruit registers in a way that feels immediately opulent. Frankincense adds a cool, resinous thread as the heart develops, while oud and suede give the composition a textured, almost tactile quality.
Plum and rose deepen the heart further, pulling the fragrance into darker, more resinous territory. The tobacco and amber base provide a smoldering foundation, with vanilla softening the edges without making the dry-down sweet.
The overall character is dense and dark — a rich Oriental built for evenings and cold weather. It layers smoke, leather, and fruit in a way that rewards time on skin.
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.
