Unholy Oud BORNTOSTANDOUT®
Incense dominates the opening, its dry resinous smoke pushing through bright berg lemon and bergamot to create a citric-censer effect that feels church-cool rather than sun-warm.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Bulgarian Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readIncense dominates the opening, its dry resinous smoke pushing through bright berg lemon and bergamot to create a citric-censer effect that feels church-cool rather than sun-warm. Bulgarian rose enters early, its petals dusted with the lingering incense ash, softening the smoke and linking it to the vanillic base. Over the first hour tonka folds coumarin sweetness around sandalwood, while heliotrope adds powdered almond that blunts patchouli’s earthiness and keeps the oud accord abstract—no medicinal funk, just a dark woody hum. The dry-down stays close to skin, a fuzzy almond-vanilla glow peppered with incense flecks that last through a workday but never shout. Cool evenings, smart-casual settings, fall through early spring.
Scent twins
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