Mysterious Oud
Guaiac wood starts dry and smoky, carrying a faint tarry edge that immediately signals dark woods rather than polished furniture.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Smoky60
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Guaiac Wood
- Jasmine
- Labdanum
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGuaiac wood starts dry and smoky, carrying a faint tarry edge that immediately signals dark woods rather than polished furniture. Jasmine arrives quickly, but it’s stripped of sweetness, instead weaving a leathery floral thread through the ember-laced guaiac while labdanum thickens the middle with a resinous, almost honeyed amber glow. As the heart settles, sandalwood softens the smoke, adding a creamy, nutty wood grain that blunts the earlier rough edges. Amber and musk in the base act like dimmer switches, turning down brightness while extending a warm, skin-hugging haze that smells lightly animalic without drifting into barnyard territory. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, then collapses into a suede-tinged wood filter on fabric. Cool autumn evenings and smart-casual dinners feel tailor-made for its restrained opulence.
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.
