Oud
Tobacco and clary sage open with a dry, slightly herbal sharpness before the composition settles into its deeper register.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Balsamic90
- Smoky90
- Tobacco70
- Oud
The note pyramid
- Tobacco
- Juniper Berry
- Clary Sage
- Osmanthus
- Turkish Rose
By the editors · 2 min readTobacco and clary sage open with a dry, slightly herbal sharpness before the composition settles into its deeper register. There's no sweetness cushioning the transition — just a direct handoff to resinous territory.
Oud, myrrh, frankincense, and opoponax form a dense, church-like base where smoke and balsamic resin crowd each other. The amber prevents the accord from turning austere, but only just. This reads more like burning wood and incense than polished oud.
The overall character is heavy and tenacious — cool-weather incense that wears close after projection fades. It suits those who want resin without sweetness.
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.
