Oud de Carthage
Oud de Carthage opens with smoke and resin — incense and frankincense rising first, with a thread of honey thickening the air underneath.
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.
- Smoky75
- Leather70
- Oud70
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Honey
- Tonka Bean
- Labdanum
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readOud de Carthage opens with smoke and resin — incense and frankincense rising first, with a thread of honey thickening the air underneath. The perfume sets its register immediately: dim, warm, slightly sacred.
The heart adds tonka and labdanum, and the tonka's hay-sweetness softens the resin, while the labdanum deepens the amber-leather direction the base will fully commit to. There is no floral relief, no citric brightening — the composition stays in its lane.
By the dry-down, leather and oud carry the perfume into an unambiguously oriental close: dry, dark, faintly animalic, with the honey and incense still flickering at the edges. It wears strong and long, projecting in cold air, an evening and cold-weather proposition rather than something for daylight or warmth.
Scent twins
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