Amber Oud
Frankincense and bergamot announce a church-door chill, resinous smoke curling around citrus oil that flashes then retreats within minutes.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Oud90
- Balsamic70
- Amber70
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Bergamot
- Oud
- Patchouli
- Rose
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense and bergamot announce a church-door chill, resinous smoke curling around citrus oil that flashes then retreats within minutes. A heart of Laotian oud, patchouli and rose lands darkly humid, the wood’s medicinal camphor lifting the petals while patchouli’s cocoa-earth anchors them to skin. Base layers double the oud, now softer, and fold it into ambergris, myrrh, labdanum and vanilla; salt-crusted ambergris tames the sweet resinous trio, turning the accord into a glowing, leather-tinted ember that pulses close for hours. Projection stays at arm’s length, ideal for cool evenings or travel when you want presence without announcement.
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.
