Intense Oud
Intense Oud opens with theatrical contrast — pear and raspberry providing sweet fruit-forward brightness against frankincense, which arrives early as a resinous haze.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Oud80
- Rose55
- Leather55
- Incense50
- Patchouli50
By the editors · 2 min readIntense Oud opens with theatrical contrast — pear and raspberry providing sweet fruit-forward brightness against frankincense, which arrives early as a resinous haze. Saffron adds its characteristic metallic warmth, giving the opening a richness that signals what's coming. Orange blossom and Damask rose at the heart are generous and present — not quiet supporting notes but full participants, the rose reading as deep and almost opulent against the incense underneath.
The base is where the fragrance commits fully to its title: leather, ambergris, patchouli, and agarwood combining into something genuinely dense and animalic. The oud is synthetic but not cheap — dark wood with a slight medicinal edge rather than barn. This is a fragrance for occasions where presence is the point. It projects confidently and lingers long after you've left the room.
