Iconic Oud
Rose dominates the opening, its velvety petals dusted with saffron’s hay-like dryness that mutes any sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Leather80
- Rose70
- Woody60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Vanilla
- Saffron
- Musk
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readRose dominates the opening, its velvety petals dusted with saffron’s hay-like dryness that mutes any sweetness. Jasmine slips underneath, adding a faintly indolic lift that keeps the floral heart from turning jammy. Vanilla arrives early, folding the florals into a creamy, almost oily texture that sticks to skin rather than radiates. Leather emerges in the base, matte and smoky, pressed against sandalwood’s buttery grain to create a muted wood-smoke accord that lingers close to skin. The composition stays linear: what you smell at thirty minutes is what remains six hours later, only quieter and slightly muskier. Projection stays polite, creating a soft leather-rose cocoon perfect for cool autumn evenings or layered under a wool coat.
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.
