Sheikh Al Shuyukh
Sheikh Al Shuyukh opens with a single cedar note — dry, woody, slightly pencil-shaving in feel, with no citrus or fruit to soften it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Woody70
- Lavender65
- Earthy65
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Cedar
- Sage
- Lavender
- Rosemary
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readSheikh Al Shuyukh opens with a single cedar note — dry, woody, slightly pencil-shaving in feel, with no citrus or fruit to soften it.
The heart is herbaceous: sage, lavender, and rosemary, the classic fougère trio, layered over the lingering cedar. The composition reads aromatic-traditional rather than modern, with a slightly soapy, slightly medicinal angle that comes from leaning lavender hard.
The base of vetiver and patchouli grounds everything into earthy-green territory. Vetiver brings smoky-grassy depth; patchouli adds soil-warm sweetness without going dirty. The dry-down stays close to the skin and lasts through a workday. It wears classic and masculine, well suited to office and cool-weather wear, scratching the same itch as old-school barbershop fougères without aiming above its budget origin.
Scent twins
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