Oud Tabac
Saffron and ginger cut sharply at first, with heliotrope lending a faint powdery warmth underneath.
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.
- Smoky80
- Balsamic65
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Saffron
- Heliotrope
- Amberwood
- Oud
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and ginger cut sharply at first, with heliotrope lending a faint powdery warmth underneath. The opening is brief but distinct before the heart takes over completely.
Pipe tobacco and oud dominate the middle, dense and resinous, threaded with frankincense smoke. The two tobacco entries read together as a single dry, woody burn rather than sweetness — closer to an ashtray than a dessert. Labdanum deepens the base without softening it much.
Cedar and musk anchor the dry-down into something more wearable, pulling back from the heaviest incense. Overall this is a full-bodied, smoke-forward composition with tobacco at its absolute center.
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.
