Desert Oud
Desert Oud opens with a clean citrus pairing of lemon and bergamot, brightened by freesia's light green-floral quality.
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.
- Floral75
- Amber70
- Rose65
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Freesia
- Bergamot
- Bulgarian Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readDesert Oud opens with a clean citrus pairing of lemon and bergamot, brightened by freesia's light green-floral quality. The heart shifts into a fuller floral accord — Bulgarian rose, ylang-ylang, and lily of the valley creating a layered but conventional bouquet that reads warm and slightly powdery.
The base is where the composition becomes more complex: sandalwood, rosewood, and patchouli build a warm woody foundation, while amber and vanilla add resinous sweetness. Vetiver contributes a faint earthy dryness that prevents the base from becoming purely soft.
The name implies oud, but none appears in the pyramid. What remains is a warm, amber-floral oriental with broad appeal and moderate staying power.
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.
