The Aoud
Cinnamon and clove crackle on the opening with a bergamot flicker for cleanliness, the spice already signalling the composition's territory before any rose appears.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Clove
- Bergamot
- Saffron
- Rose
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and clove crackle on the opening with a bergamot flicker for cleanliness, the spice already signalling the composition's territory before any rose appears.
Saffron and rose form the heart in a familiar oriental pairing — the saffron carrying a leathery, slightly medicinal warmth, the rose plush and red rather than dewy. The transition into the base is seamless: oud arrives quickly, joining leather, sandalwood and cedar into a dense, polished woodiness.
A white musk smooths the harder edges. The overall character is solid and recognisable — a leather-rose-oud architecture executed cleanly, with weight and projection, tilting masculine but not exclusively so.
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.
