Oud Suleiman
The pyramid here is sparse — leather at the top, sandalwood and coffee in the heart, ambergris at the base.
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.
- Smoky60
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Sandalwood
- Coffee
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readThe pyramid here is sparse — leather at the top, sandalwood and coffee in the heart, ambergris at the base. This minimalism amplifies each note. Leather is immediate and animalic; coffee deepens it into something roasted and slightly bitter; ambergris rounds the drydown with warmth and salt.
The note prior strongly confirms animalic, oud, tobacco, balsamic, and smoky elements. Neighbours reinforce leather-smoke-sweet territory. This is a slow-burning, uncompromising composition without the fruitiness or sweetness that softens many oud-leather fragrances. It rewards patience — cold-weather evenings in particular — and projects with quiet authority rather than volume.
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.
