Black Oud
Pink pepper and cardamom crackle open with a dry, peppery rose that feels almost blackened by the spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Patchouli60
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Rose
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Papyrus
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and cardamom crackle open with a dry, peppery rose that feels almost blackened by the spice. The heart stacks cedar's pencil-sharp dryness against patchouli's chocolate earthiness, while papyrus adds a papery, slightly saline green streak that keeps the rose from blooming too sweet. As the base settles, moss and sandalwood create a cool forest-floor cushion, incense weaves a thin grey smoke veil, and labdanum's ambery resin glues everything to skin with a quiet musk hum. Projection stays within arm's reach for six hours, tilting dark-woodsy rather than oriental, making it an easy reach for crisp fall evenings or a charcoal suit.
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.
