Oud Maximus 2020
Pink pepper crackles first, a bright spark against cardamom’s cool green bite, bergamot lending only a thin citrus gloss before the floral core blooms.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Vanilla50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles first, a bright spark against cardamom’s cool green bite, bergamot lending only a thin citrus gloss before the floral core blooms. Magnolia arrives creamy and waxen, its lemon-tinged petals cushioned by a plush velvet rose that swells through the heart, turning the opening spice into something softly pollen-dusted. Over hours the base folds in: tonka pours warm hay and soft almond, vanilla smooths the edges, while civet and musk breathe humid fur and skin, keeping the composition from dessert-like collapse. Projection stays at arm’s length for most of the wear, a sophisticated skin-bloom rather than a room-filler, best suited to cool autumn evenings or intimate winter dinners where subtlety reads as confidence. The scent keeps evolving quietly, a slow fade from floral glow to tawny musk that still whispers the next morning.
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.
