In The Mood For Oud
Bergamot flashes quickly, leaving a clean citrus sting that is almost immediately swallowed by a medicinal oud core.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Oud
- Raspberry
- Saffron
- Papyrus
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes quickly, leaving a clean citrus sting that is almost immediately swallowed by a medicinal oud core. The heart piles on: raspberry brings a tart-jam brightness that keeps the oud from turning dank, while saffron threads a dry leather nuance through the wood, and papyrus adds a faint paper dryness that keeps the accord angular. As the fruit calms, the oud softens and the base pair of tonka and vanilla rises, sheathing the wood in a faint almond-sweet haze that lingers close to skin. Projection stays polite—an arm-length radius for the first three hours—then collapses into a whisper of creamy wood perfect for cool autumn evenings or a quiet date where you want mystery without theater.
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.
