The Longing
Oud arrives first, dark and slightly animalic, immediately lacquered by a syrupy plum that stains the jasmine petals beneath it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Honey90
- Leather60
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Oud
- Jasmine
- Plum
- Gardenia
- Orange Blossom
- Honey
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readOud arrives first, dark and slightly animalic, immediately lacquered by a syrupy plum that stains the jasmine petals beneath it. Gardenia and orange blossom bloom together in the heart, their creamy lactones absorbing the honey until the white bouquet feels almost candied; a whisper of osmanthus keeps the sugar from crystallizing. As the benzoin melts into sandalwood, the leather emerges—soft, suede-like, carrying the residual smoke of the earlier oud. Vanilla and amber stretch the base into a velvety ambered glow while ambrette seeds lend a discreet musky flutter that lingers on cuffs. Projection hovers at arm’s length for six hours, then settles into a radiant skin trail perfect for cool autumn nights or intimate candle-lit dinners.
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.
