Afghan Les Perles D'Orient Eau de Parfum
Oud and tobacco arrive together from the first spray, dense and unapologetic.
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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.
- Tobacco90
- Oud90
- Smoky70
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Oud
- Tobacco
- Coffee
- Oud
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readOud and tobacco arrive together from the first spray, dense and unapologetic. The coffee note adds a roasted bitterness that tempers the raw animalic quality of the oud, giving the opening a charred, almost burned-wood character. No softening florals or citrus arrive to ease the transition.
Frankincense emerges in the base, adding a resinous smoke that deepens the tobacco rather than replacing it. The composition stays consistently dark throughout, with the oud cycling between woody dryness and a faintly leathery edge.
This is a heavy, uncompromising oriental built for cold evenings. The note count is sparse but the density is high — each ingredient pulls significant weight.
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.
