Oud Monarch
Magnolia opens alone — a creamy lemony-floral note that gives the entry a soft luminous lift before darker material arrives.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Animalic80
- Tobacco60
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Cinnamon
- Tobacco
- Rose
- Civet
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readMagnolia opens alone — a creamy lemony-floral note that gives the entry a soft luminous lift before darker material arrives. It's brief, more overture than statement.
The heart turns rich and shadowy: cinnamon and tobacco wrapped around rose. Tobacco gives a dry-leaf warmth, cinnamon adds a sweet-hot edge, and rose threads through with a stained, slightly jammy quality. The pairing reads adult and densely composed.
The base goes feral — civet and castoreum together, both animalic, with labdanum's leathery resin and vanilla's sweetness pulling the close into smoky-balsamic warmth. Overall character is a heavy oriental with strong animalic and tobacco-rose character, projecting strongly into the night, best in cold weather.
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.
