Alanoud
Alanoud is a sparse composition: sandalwood and musk in the top, vanilla and patchouli in the base, with nothing in the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Patchouli90
- Earthy70
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Musk
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readAlanoud is a sparse composition: sandalwood and musk in the top, vanilla and patchouli in the base, with nothing in the heart. What connects these is the patchouli, which scores highest in the prior and functions as the structural spine of the fragrance.
The patchouli here reads earthy and dark — less the sweet patch of oriental perfumery, more the raw, slightly smoky version. Sandalwood adds creamy wood warmth; vanilla gives a soft sweetness that rounds patchouli's edge. Musk provides diffusion. The oud noted in the prior may arise from the patchouli-sandalwood interaction rather than a literal oud note. The overall impression is dark, earthy, and intimate — a skin-close oriental built for evening wear in cool weather.
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.
