Accord Oud
Accord Oud opens with an unusual fruit-and-spice combination—blackberry syrup spiked with saffron and a dark rum note that feels more molasses than booze.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Leather85
- Patchouli65
- Musk55
- Oud30
- Caramel20
By the editors · 2 min readAccord Oud opens with an unusual fruit-and-spice combination—blackberry syrup spiked with saffron and a dark rum note that feels more molasses than booze. It's sweet but not cloying, with enough medicinal bite from the saffron to keep it from turning into dessert. Within minutes, the leather emerges, dry and slightly austere, pulling the sweetness into shadow.
The heart balances herbal sharpness against supple leather, clary sage adding a mineral, almost medicinal quality that keeps the composition from feeling purely animalic. What's interesting here is the absence of actual oud—the name suggests it, the darkness implies it, but this is more about resinous leather and patchouli creating that woody depth.
By the base, it settles into a skin-close musk with earthy patchouli anchoring what remains of the leather. It wears close and quiet, more intimate than projective. Best suited to someone who wants a leather scent that doesn't announce itself from across the room.
