Urban Oud
Cardamom crackles open with a bright green-heat snap that immediately frames the oud to come.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Orris
- Jasmine
- Saffron
- Papyrus
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom crackles open with a bright green-heat snap that immediately frames the oud to come. The heart layers orris butter, saffron threads and sueded rose into a dusty leather accord, while papyrus adds a dry paper lift that keeps the florals from turning creamy. As the spices recede, guaiac and cedar build a smoldering wood core, vetiver sharpens the edges, and castoreum injects a whispered animal growl that clings to sweaters. Vanilla lands late, just enough to sweeten the embered woods without sliding into dessert territory; patchouli stays quiet, anchoring the smoke. Projection hovers at arm’s length for six hours, perfect for cool fall nights or a dark blazer evening when you want the oud present but not shouting.
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.
