Killer Instinct
Oud and grapefruit open together in an unusual pairing — the resinous darkness of the oud is cut by citrus brightness, creating a tense, almost electric first impression.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Oud85
- Lavender70
- Aromatic60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Oud
- Green Notes
- Blackcurrant
- Grapefruit
- Lavender
- Cypriol
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readOud and grapefruit open together in an unusual pairing — the resinous darkness of the oud is cut by citrus brightness, creating a tense, almost electric first impression. The contrast doesn't resolve so much as shift, with lavender and cypriol pulling it toward something smokier and more grounded. Cedar adds a dry structural backbone.
The base settles into sandalwood, amber, and musk — warmer and more conventional than the opening suggests. The overall character is a masculine aromatic-oud that leans bold without becoming oppressive. Neighbors confirm this aromatic-woody direction, and the smoky cypriol keeps it from feeling generic.
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.
