Oud
The first breath is densely resinous—oud wood backed by saffron's leathery warmth and a medicinal edge that feels clinical rather than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Oud95
- Cedar65
- Incense60
- Vetiver50
- Patchouli45
By the editors · 2 min readThe first breath is densely resinous—oud wood backed by saffron's leathery warmth and a medicinal edge that feels clinical rather than sweet. There's no fruit or rose to soften the introduction. This is oud stripped to structure, built around Laotian wood that smells of old furniture and temple incense, with a faint bitterness underneath.
As it opens, Moroccan cedarwood and vetiver anchor the composition lower, while patchouli adds a dry, almost chalky texture. The effect is austere, architectural—closer to a study in single-material perfumery than to the sweetened oud blends that followed. It wears close and serious, never loud.
What emerges is a composed, deliberate woodiness for those already familiar with oud's range. Not an introduction to the material, but a refined statement about it—unadorned, precise, suited to someone who prefers their complexity understated.
