Oud Zhen
Civet dominates the opening, projecting a sharp, almost acrid fur note that feels half-tamed rather than feral.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Animalic90
- Woody60
- Balsamic50
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Civet
- Vetiver
- Myrrh
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readCivet dominates the opening, projecting a sharp, almost acrid fur note that feels half-tamed rather than feral. Within minutes sandalwood arrives, its creamy lactones softening the civet’s bite while vetiver threads a cool, rooty green through the wood, stopping the accord from turning syrupy. Myrrh and castoreum widen the base: the resin adds a bitter incense smoke, the castoreum leathers the dry-down with a waxy, slightly salty pelt that clings to skin for hours. The scent stays close, radiating a warm, resinous animalic haze that smells like old wooden temple boxes still holding traces of fur and ceremonial balm. Projection remains intimate; longevity easily crosses the eight-hour mark, making it an atmospheric choice for cool evenings or private evening wear when you want the room to notice only when it’s already inside your personal space.
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.
