Secrets of Love - Oud Provocant
Frankincense and saffron open with an immediately dark, resinous character — the saffron adds its distinctive leathery, slightly metallic warmth and the frankincense provides a smoky, sacred-space quality.
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.
- Balsamic90
- Leather90
- Smoky90
- Oud
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Saffron
- Grapefruit
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense and saffron open with an immediately dark, resinous character — the saffron adds its distinctive leathery, slightly metallic warmth and the frankincense provides a smoky, sacred-space quality. Grapefruit offers a brief tart contrast before the composition settles inward.
Labdanum and patchouli in the heart deepen the resinous quality — labdanum adds a beeswax-honey warmth and patchouli brings earthy depth. Rose sits underneath both, adding a veiled florality that prevents the composition from becoming purely abstract.
Cypriol (nagarmotha) adds smoky, woody earthiness to the base and moss contributes a classic chypre dryness. Ambergris gives the dry-down a marine-animalic character. The overall result is a complex, dark, and animalic oriental-chypre — smoky, leathery, and resinous. For evening and cool-weather wear.
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.
