Oud Immortel
Oud Immortel opens with incense and cardamom — a combination that reads as temple smoke at altitude, resinous and spiced.
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.
- Incense70
- Tobacco60
- Patchouli55
- Cardamom40
- Amber30
By the editors · 2 min readOud Immortel opens with incense and cardamom — a combination that reads as temple smoke at altitude, resinous and spiced. There is no oud in the listed notes; the darkness the title promises comes instead from the incense and what follows. Patchouli and papyrus at the heart are an unusual pairing: patchouli earthy and dense, papyrus dry and faintly dusty, together producing something that smells like ancient materials and ceremony rather than conventional perfumery.
Tobacco in the base lands as dried leaf rather than sweet pipe, and it turns the composition toward something meditative and deliberate. Oud Immortel is one of Byredo's darker works — more committed to atmosphere than to wearability in the conventional sense, built for long evenings in rooms with good lighting and conversations that don't require the fragrance to compete.
