Rausch
Sandalwood opens unusually placed at the top — creamy, warm, milky from the start with no real fresh phase.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Oud75
- Woody70
- Amber60
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Cypriol
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Oud
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readSandalwood opens unusually placed at the top — creamy, warm, milky from the start with no real fresh phase. Within minutes cypriol joins, adding its smoky earthy spice, and the composition reads dense and woody from the first sniff.
Vanilla and patchouli build the heart, the patchouli darkening the cream and the vanilla curbing the smoke into something almost edible. The base brings oud — leathery, slightly medicinal, the dirty-warm kind — alongside amber's resinous glow. The progression is more about deepening than evolving; what you smell at fifteen minutes is essentially a softer version of what you smell at three hours, with the oud growing more present over time.
Overall a smoky, creamy, oud-and-amber composition with serious presence. Cool-weather evening territory. Strong projection, long stay.
Scent twins
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