Sand Aoud
Sand Aoud opens with a dusty sweetness — black currant softened by saffron's golden warmth, like sun-bleached wood and dried fruit found in a spice merchant's stall.
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.
- Oud65
- Smoky55
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Saffron
- Rose
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readSand Aoud opens with a dusty sweetness — black currant softened by saffron's golden warmth, like sun-bleached wood and dried fruit found in a spice merchant's stall. The rose emerges quickly, but it's not fresh or dewy; here it's powdered and resinous, woven through frankincense smoke and backed by oud that leans synthetic but deliberate, all heat and no rot.
As it settles, white musk and vanilla smooth the edges into something surprisingly wearable. The patchouli adds earth without darkness, while the incense never fully disappears, threading through the base like sandalwood's ghost. What results is less "desert drama" than accessible oud — approachable enough for someone skeptical of the note, but with enough resinous weight to satisfy those who want presence without aggression. A polite introduction to the genre.
Scent twins
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