Black Oud Extreme Amber
Frankincense opens Black Oud Extreme Amber with a resinous, church-stone chill that feels almost mineral, not sweet.
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.
- Smoky90
- Animalic80
- Woody70
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Oud
- Ambergris
- Sandalwood
- Civet
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense opens Black Oud Extreme Amber with a resinous, church-stone chill that feels almost mineral, not sweet. Within minutes the heart ignites: oud arrives as singed, damp barn boards while ambergris weaves a salty, skin-warm glow that keeps the smoke breathing rather than billowing. The base layers sandalwood’s creamy grain against cedar’s dry splinters, letting castoreum and civet add a leathery, almost urinous growl that clings to fur rather than fabric. Vanilla softens the claws just enough to stop the composition turning feral, creating a rounded, resin-licked amber that smolders for hours. Projection radiates a one-foot aura of campfire and old hides, ideal for cool nights, leather jackets, intimate venues.
Scent twins
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