Oud Khôl
Oud Khôl leads with neroli, bright and slightly medicinal, set against an already-present leather that reads dry rather than dark.
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.
- Nutty70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Neroli
- Musk
- Praline
By the editors · 2 min readOud Khôl leads with neroli, bright and slightly medicinal, set against an already-present leather that reads dry rather than dark. The contrast is immediate — citrus-floral freshness sitting on top of something abrasive and animalic.
As the neroli recedes, praline moves in, adding a nutty, caramelized sweetness that softens the leather considerably. The combination reads closer to sweet-smoky than to a strict leather fragrance. Musk binds the praline and leather into a dense middle phase.
The dry-down is warm and sustained — leather persisting beneath a blanket of creamy praline and clean musk. This is a contrast study between hard and soft materials that largely resolves toward the sweet side.
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.
