Oud Isphahan
Saffron and thyme open with a dry herbal-spice combination — saffron leathery and slightly metallic, thyme green and aromatic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Cinnamon55
- Rose55
- Amber55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Thyme
- Cinnamon
- Patchouli
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and thyme open with a dry herbal-spice combination — saffron leathery and slightly metallic, thyme green and aromatic. The opening reads serious and Middle-Eastern-coded, with no citrus to lift it.
Cinnamon, patchouli, and rose form the heart. Cinnamon dominates the spice direction; rose adds a jammy depth wrapped in patchouli's earthiness. The composition stays dense throughout — no air or freshness.
Sandalwood, amber, cedar, and musk make the base. The wood-amber foundation evokes a warm, oud-adjacent density even though oud itself isn't present. The drydown is a long, plush rose-spice-wood accord with strong projection and excellent longevity, settling into a polished oriental skin scent.
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.
