Midnight Oud
Saffron, bergamot, and rose in the opening establish a rich spiced-floral character — the roses at two registers, saffron metallic and warm, papyrus adding a dry papery quality.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 20 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.
- Oud70
- Rose65
- Amber65
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Papyrus
- Bergamot
- Damask Rose
- Rose
- Oud
- Bulgarian Rose
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron, bergamot, and rose in the opening establish a rich spiced-floral character — the roses at two registers, saffron metallic and warm, papyrus adding a dry papery quality. Oud arrives in the heart alongside labdanum and castoreum for an animalic-resinous core that is more Arabie than Europe, yet always controlled. Cedar and patchouli add structural dryness. The base is deep and long-lived: sandalwood, amber, and vanilla offering warmth, castoreum and musk keeping the animalic quality present without excess. A genuine oud fragrance built for wearers who appreciate depth over accessibility.
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.
