Aoud Café
The opening is a fleeting brightness—bergamot and fruit—that dissolves within minutes into roasted coffee and warm amber.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Woody70
- Amber70
- Musky60
- Oud
The note pyramid
- Peach
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Amber
- Coffee
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a fleeting brightness—bergamot and fruit—that dissolves within minutes into roasted coffee and warm amber. This is where Aoud Café lives: that halfway point between a café at dusk and an oud-soaked incense dish. The coffee note is literal, almost Turkish in its darkness, but it's cushioned by musk and sandalwood that keep it from turning bitter or sharp.
The oud here is polished rather than animalic, more resinous wood than barnyard, which allows the coffee to remain the center of attention. It wears close after the first hour, projecting softly in a sweet-woody haze.
Best suited to cooler weather and those who want their gourmands grounded in something denser than vanilla. It's recognizable without being loud, familiar enough for everyday wear but unusual enough to feel deliberate.
Scent twins
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