Mysterious Oud
Orange and bergamot open with a brief citrus flash before cardamom and cinnamon take over.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Cinnamon80
- Vanilla60
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Amber
- Orange
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Cinnamon
- Myrrh
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and bergamot open with a brief citrus flash before cardamom and cinnamon take over. That spiced warmth is immediate and assertive, carrying the dry sweetness of tonka bean alongside it. Pink pepper and nutmeg layer additional texture without separating from the central spice cluster.
Myrrh and castoreum deepen the mid-stage considerably — a resiny, faintly animalic quality threads through jasmine and rose, preventing the florals from reading as soft or feminine. The spice and resin work together rather than competing.
Sandalwood, labdanum, cedar, and opoponax form a dense, balsamic foundation. Vanilla softens the edges without turning gourmand. This sits firmly in the warm, resinous oriental territory — rich and persistent.
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.
