New Oud
Petitgrain and orange blossom create a brisk, slightly bitter citrus opening that feels more leafy than juicy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tuberose50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Orange Blossom
- Tuberose
- Saffron
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain and orange blossom create a brisk, slightly bitter citrus opening that feels more leafy than juicy. The heart shifts quickly as tuberose steps forward, its creamy white petals laced with saffron’s dry, leathery spice, turning the composition from bright to duskier floral territory. Vetiver, patchouli and papyrus in the base keep the fragrance vertical: vetiver supplies cool grass, patchouli brings earthy chocolate crumbs, while papyrus adds a clean, papery wood that stops the base from becoming too damp. Wear time stretches to seven hours, projecting an arm’s-length aura for the first two before settling into a muted woody-floral skin scent. Cool autumn days and smart-casual offices suit its polite exoticism best.
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.
