Black Oud Extreme Amber
Incense opens with a dry, resinous smoke that clings to the skin like charred pine needles.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Ambergris
- Sandalwood
- Civet
- Vanilla
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readIncense opens with a dry, resinous smoke that clings to the skin like charred pine needles. Ambergris arrives quickly, adding a salty, marine-skin warmth that softens the incense’s brittle edges while amplifying its diffusive reach. The base layers sandalwood’s creamy blond wood against vanilla’s rounded sweetness, but civet and castoreum push forward, lending a musky, almost urinous growl that keeps the amber from turning dessert-like. Cedar adds splinters of dry wood, preventing the animalics from becoming too heavy, while the vanilla slowly caramelizes the smoke into a leathered, tarry amber that hovers close to the body for hours. Projection stays within arm’s length; best after dark in cool weather.
Scent twins
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