Oud Abramad
Ginger and saffron open with a bright-but-dry spice flicker, almost metallic in the first seconds before the smoke takes over.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Saffron
- Cumin
- Amberwood
- Incense
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and saffron open with a bright-but-dry spice flicker, almost metallic in the first seconds before the smoke takes over. Within minutes cumin lays down its warm, sweat-adjacent body warmth, tilting the composition toward something tactile and animal.
The base is dense and resinous: oud's medicinal-leather pungency, frankincense and amberwood layered with a smoky-balsamic depth, labdanum's dark sweetness, and castoreum adding a creamy animalic plushness. Patchouli laces earthy purr through the long drydown, and ambroxan radiates a salty woody hum that gives the heaviness room to breathe.
Overall character: a smoky-resinous oud with animal warmth and spice — projecting confidently at arm's length, lingering on fabric for many hours as a dark, leathery incense trail.
Scent twins
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