I Want Oud
Saffron and cardamom create a dry, peppery heat that crackles over the rose, turning the flower into something leathery rather than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Smoky70
- Warm Spicy60
- Balsamic60
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Rose
- Nutmeg
- Rose
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and cardamom create a dry, peppery heat that crackles over the rose, turning the flower into something leathery rather than sweet. The heart doubles down on nutmeg, its clove-like edge sharpening the spices while the rose recedes into a muted, wine-dark backdrop. Myrrh and benzoin in the base smolder slowly, releasing a resinous smoke that clings to the oud’s medicinal wood, producing a tarry, incense-laden finish that feels both cold and hot. Projection stays within arm’s reach for the first three hours, then collapses to a skin-bound ember that lasts through a workday. Cool autumn nights and dim restaurants let the resinous oud breathe without turning harsh.
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.