Metallic Oud
A juicy pear-and-raspberry opening immediately collides with saffron's leathery-metallic edge, while orange and lemon flicker over the top.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Raspberry
- Saffron
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bulgarian Rose
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readA juicy pear-and-raspberry opening immediately collides with saffron's leathery-metallic edge, while orange and lemon flicker over the top. The combination reads less fresh than the citruses suggest — saffron pulls everything toward a dusty, warm fruit-leather impression.
The heart leans floral and slightly powdery: Bulgarian rose, orange blossom, and violet braid together with pink pepper and an early lift of amber. Despite the name, the metallic cast comes from saffron and violet rather than any actual oud.
The base goes chypre-adjacent — oakmoss, cedar, patchouli, and amber with musk binding them. Overall: a fruity-floral-woody build with a slightly retro powdery character. Projection is moderate, longevity respectable, and the drydown holds a mossy-amber warmth on skin.
Scent twins
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