The Other Side of Oud
A bitter-coffee oud — the unusual move is folding agarwood into a roasted-bean accord and letting the two carry the entire composition.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Oud75
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Cardamom
- Oud
- Coffee Blossom
- Geranium
By the editors · 2 min readA bitter-coffee oud — the unusual move is folding agarwood into a roasted-bean accord and letting the two carry the entire composition. Cardamom, cinnamon, and ginger open with a chai-like warmth that signals where the drydown is going long before it arrives.
The heart is dim and aromatic: oud paired with coffee blossom (greener and more floral than the bean) and a swipe of geranium for cool spice. The agarwood here is the polite kind — woody and dry rather than barnyard.
The base lands on the roasted coffee that the opening promised, smoothed by vanilla absolute. The drydown reads close to a cardamom-dusted espresso — bitter, warm, slow to fade. A confident cold-weather choice that holds more density than its weight suggests.
Scent twins
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