Black Intensitive Aoud
Black Intensitive Aoud opens with a pairing that gives away its ambition: sun-warmed peach skin and clove, which together read as sweet-spiced fruit rather than something either purely fruity or purely oriental.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Oud70
- Sandalwood55
- Rose50
- Jasmine40
- Peach35
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Intensitive Aoud opens with a pairing that gives away its ambition: sun-warmed peach skin and clove, which together read as sweet-spiced fruit rather than something either purely fruity or purely oriental. The spice has edge without sharpness.
At the heart, saffron deepens everything — its metallic, slightly leathery quality amplifying both rose and jasmine into something more intense than their usual registers. Violet softens the transition downward. The base is textbook Mancera territory: oud and sandalwood in proportions that let each breathe, cedar providing linear backbone. Dense without being claustrophobic, best worn in cool weather when you want the sillage to arrive before you do.
