Oil Fiction
Oil Fiction opens with a dense, resinous quality — labdanum and saffron arriving together, giving an immediate impression of warmth tinged with metallic spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Patchouli65
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Labdanum
- Saffron
- Patchouli
- Papyrus
- Sandalwood
- Ambroxan
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readOil Fiction opens with a dense, resinous quality — labdanum and saffron arriving together, giving an immediate impression of warmth tinged with metallic spice. Bergamot from the general list provides a thin citrus edge that dissipates quickly, leaving the heavier materials to take over.
In the heart, patchouli and papyrus create an earthy, almost papery dryness that keeps the composition from feeling too sweet. Ylang-ylang adds a faint floral creaminess underneath without dominating.
The base settles around sandalwood and ambroxan — clean, skin-close, and quietly musky. The overall character is an amber-resinous skin scent, leaning dark but never dense, with a dry woody finish that lingers softly.
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.
