Atkinsons His Majesty The Oud
An oud-leather built around a smoky black-tea opening, lifted by clove's dry warmth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Oud85
- Leather70
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Tea
- Clove
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Cedar
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readAn oud-leather built around a smoky black-tea opening, lifted by clove's dry warmth. The first impression is dim and resinous rather than animalic — closer to a tea-stained library than a barn.
The heart introduces sandalwood and cedar against a polished leather note. The wood is creamy enough to round the leather's edges, while clove threads through to keep the composition from going soft. It reads masculine in the British country-house sense: deliberate, dry, slightly austere.
Base is where the oud finally surfaces — paired with vanilla and styrax-like liquidambar, the agarwood softens into a balsamic glow rather than a medicinal bite. The drydown is long, warm, and skin-close after the first hours.
Scent twins
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