Shades Wood
Rose, geranium, and citrus open with a dry floral-herbal freshness — the geranium medicinal and green, rose providing warmth, citrus adding lift before the transition to the heart makes its intentions clear.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Oud65
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Citrus
- Geranium
- Rose
- Rose
- Pepper
- Cumin
- Cumin
By the editors · 2 min readRose, geranium, and citrus open with a dry floral-herbal freshness — the geranium medicinal and green, rose providing warmth, citrus adding lift before the transition to the heart makes its intentions clear. Clove, cumin, and pepper arrive as an assertive spice accord that shifts register entirely: dark, warm, and distinctly Middle Eastern in character, the cumin in particular lending its earthy-savory quality.
Oud, sandalwood, and cedar anchor the base with rich woody depth — oud smoky and dense, sandalwood creamy, cedar providing dry structure. Shades Wood is a value-priced entry into the Arabian woody-spice genre: recognizable territory, assembled competently, accessible at its price point.
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.
