Indian OUD
Cumin opens hot and sweaty, its oily spice riding immediately over bergamot’s thin citrus flash, creating a sour-heat accord that sticks to skin.
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
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Bergamot
- Oakmoss
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCumin opens hot and sweaty, its oily spice riding immediately over bergamot’s thin citrus flash, creating a sour-heat accord that sticks to skin. That pungent top lingers longer than expected, eventually sliding into a dry oakmoss heart that blunts the brightness with grey-green dust and a faint chypre snap. The base is a quiet sandalwood-vanilla-musk triangle: the wood brings creamy softness, vanilla adds rounded sweetness, and musk keeps everything close, folding the earlier spice into a suede-like skin scent that lasts. Projection drops to intimate within two hours, making this a personal aura rather than a room filler. Cool evenings and layered fall days suit its earthy warmth best; office wear is risky because the cumin opening can read as unwashed rather than exotic. Overall character is dry, spiced wood with a subtle lactonic cream finish.
Scent twins
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