Clean Reserve - Sueded Oud
Frankincense opens the scent with a resinous, slightly smoky quality — cool and dry rather than churchy.
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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.
- Oud70
- Balsamic60
- Woody60
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Oud
- Magnolia
- Frankincense
- Patchouli
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense opens the scent with a resinous, slightly smoky quality — cool and dry rather than churchy. Oud and magnolia meet in the heart, the floral softening what could otherwise be a very austere composition, though the oud's woody darkness holds ground.
Praline and suede in the base add an unexpected softness, lending a faintly sweet, skin-like quality to what began as quite austere. Patchouli and musk deepen the base without adding density. Frankincense reappears as a base note, reinforcing the balsamic thread.
The result balances dark resinous material against a suede-gourmand softness. It wears close with steady projection and suits cooler seasons in evening or relaxed formal contexts.
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Scent twins
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