Oud Provocant M. Micallef
Incense and saffron create an immediate smoky-spicy opening, with grapefruit adding a sharp citrus lift that prevents the top from feeling heavy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Mossy70
- Smoky60
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Saffron
- Grapefruit
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readIncense and saffron create an immediate smoky-spicy opening, with grapefruit adding a sharp citrus lift that prevents the top from feeling heavy. Labdanum and patchouli form a resinous, earthy heart that blends with a dry rose note, adding floral depth without sweetness. Moss and ambergris in the base provide a damp, animalic undertone that grounds the composition in a classic chypre structure. The scent evolves from smoky-spicy to a more balanced earthy-amber dry-down with a subtle leathery quality. Projection is strong initially but becomes more intimate after three hours, lasting well into the evening. Suitable for formal occasions or cool weather wear where its complex character stands out.
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.




