Oud Mood
A bold Middle Eastern composition that announces itself with sharp saffron and crimson rose, the opening dusting skin like powdered spice over fresh petals.
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.
- Amber80
- Smoky75
- Rose70
- Caramel
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Rose
- Patchouli
- Caramel
- Incense
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readA bold Middle Eastern composition that announces itself with sharp saffron and crimson rose, the opening dusting skin like powdered spice over fresh petals. The contrast feels immediate and unapologetic, sweetness checked by saffron's metallic edge.
As it settles, caramel emerges alongside earthy patchouli, creating a resinous sweetness that avoids candy-store brightness. The caramel here reads as burnt sugar mingling with dark woods rather than dessert. Incense smoke begins threading through, lending a ceremonial gravity that anchors the composition.
The dry down revolves around amber and musk wrapped in that persistent incense veil. This is unabashedly opulent fragrance in the contemporary oud style—rich, enveloping, built for presence. It suits those drawn to substantial oriental fragrances who want warmth and projection without the price point of niche houses.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
