Oud Noir Intense
Cardamom and bergamot open cool and aromatic, the cardamom green-spicy and bergamot polished.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom and bergamot open cool and aromatic, the cardamom green-spicy and bergamot polished. The opening is brief and functional — a clean doorway before the oud takes over.
Jasmine and rose at the heart introduce a floral middle, but they sit in the oud's shadow rather than leading. Rose adds jammy floral weight, jasmine creamier white-floral roundness, and saffron threads a leathery-metallic spice through the picture.
The base is where the composition lives: sandalwood, amber, vanilla, saffron, patchouli, and musk. Oud is the through-line, joined by sandalwood's creamy depth, amber's golden resin, and vanilla's smooth sweetness. Overall: a polished modern oud-rose-saffron in the contemporary niche idiom, leaning sweet and ambery rather than smoky-medicinal. Suited to cool-weather evenings, dressy occasions, and shoppers drawn to the oud-saffron axis.
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.
