Gladiator Oud
Cumin and saffron open with immediate animalic density — the cumin is raw and body-warm, the saffron metallic and slightly medicinal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Honey80
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Saffron
- Honey
- Oud
- Ambergris
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readCumin and saffron open with immediate animalic density — the cumin is raw and body-warm, the saffron metallic and slightly medicinal. There is no softening citrus to ease the entry; it lands directly and without apology.
Honey enters through the heart, amplifying the animalic quality rather than sweetening it, sitting alongside oud that reads as dark and resinous. Atlas cedar and patchouli add dry, woody structure in the base, while ambergris lends a faint marine-smoky lift. The result is heavy and deeply animalic — a close-worn fragrance suited to cold evenings where presence, not subtlety, is the aim.
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.
