Oud
A bright, almost soapy ginger meets an unwashed cumin and the medicinal kick of clove — a spicy opening that signals the perfume isn't going to be polite about its central material.
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.
- Oud85
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cumin
- Clove
- Oud
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readA bright, almost soapy ginger meets an unwashed cumin and the medicinal kick of clove — a spicy opening that signals the perfume isn't going to be polite about its central material.
At the heart, oud sits unblended and unsweetened, the leathery-medicinal raw kind rather than the confectioner's oud of mainstream releases. Cedar and patchouli underneath give it dry, slightly dusty bones; nothing is added to make the wood more flattering or rounded.
The composition stays linear once it lands: spicy-cumin gateway, then hours of dry oud-and-wood. It will read as masculine and a little severe, more workshop than boudoir.
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.
