Cherry Oud
Cherry Oud from Guerlain doesn't read as fruit so much as a particular quality of Bulgarian rose — that jammy, slightly boozy facet high-quality rose sometimes achieves, which circles back on itself as something cherry-adjacent.
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.
- Rose55
- Nutty50
- Sweet50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Bulgarian Rose
- Leather
- Cinnamon
- Leather
- Cardamom
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCherry Oud from Guerlain doesn't read as fruit so much as a particular quality of Bulgarian rose — that jammy, slightly boozy facet high-quality rose sometimes achieves, which circles back on itself as something cherry-adjacent. Cinnamon adds gentle spiced warmth, cardamom a fresh aromatic lift. The leather note is clean rather than dirty, giving the composition a dry backbone without tipping into animalic territory.
Musk diffuses warmth in the base, carrying spice and rose further than expected. A polished oriental — not austere enough to challenge, not sweet enough to cloy. Evening wear in cooler seasons is its natural context.
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.
