Black Oud
A dense, resinous opening announces itself with incense smoke threaded through cumin's earthy rasp and nutmeg's warm bite.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Incense85
- Labdanum80
- Sandalwood75
- Musk75
- Amber70
By the editors · 2 min readA dense, resinous opening announces itself with incense smoke threaded through cumin's earthy rasp and nutmeg's warm bite. The combination feels more temple than souk—austere rather than sweet, with the cumin adding a leathery, almost animalic edge that refuses to blend politely into the background.
As it settles, labdanum anchors the composition with its dark, amber-toned stickiness, while sandalwood and cedar provide a woody frame that's more about structure than softness. The base reveals its true character: civet and castoreum lend a musky, skin-close warmth that offsets vanilla's sweetness before it tips into dessert territory.
This is oud reimagined through a European lens—no actual agarwood, but rather a constructed darkness built from resins, woods, and animal notes. It wears heavy and close, suited to those who prefer their fragrances unapologetically rich and unbothered by modern ideals of transparency.