Shams Oud
Ginger and saffron open with a sharp, metallic spice — the saffron lending its characteristic dry, almost bloody edge while ginger keeps things from becoming too dense.
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.
- Smoky85
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Saffron
- Vetiver
- Tonka Bean
- Birch
- Styrax
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and saffron open with a sharp, metallic spice — the saffron lending its characteristic dry, almost bloody edge while ginger keeps things from becoming too dense. There's movement from the first spray, a slight restlessness that prevents the opening from sitting still.
Vetiver arrives as a fulcrum, earthy and smoky, anchoring the spice without softening it. The birch and styrax reinforce this smokiness, adding a tarry, resinous depth that darkens the composition considerably.
Tonka bean provides the only warmth, a quiet sweetness that rounds the drier elements without tipping into gourmand territory. The overall character is austere and smoky, built for cooler air and deliberate wearing.
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.
