True Oud
Saffron dominates the opening, shedding a dry leather-like spice that immediately muffles the faint freesia and osmanthus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Freesia
- Osmanthus
- Myrrh
- Jasmine
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron dominates the opening, shedding a dry leather-like spice that immediately muffles the faint freesia and osmanthus. Myrrh seeps in within minutes, turning the accord balsamic and softly medicinal while jasmine adds a clean white floral lift that keeps the resin from sagging. The heart phase feels like warm parchment rubbed with saffron ink: dusty, slightly sweet, still floral. Over two hours the sandalwood smooths the myrrh’s edges, patchouli brings a quiet earthy crunch, and musk blankets the skin in a suede-soft haze that smells of old wooden chests rather than barnyard oud. Projection stays close, radiating perhaps a forearm’s length for the first three hours before settling into a discreet skin murmur that endures through a workday.
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.
