Original Oud
The opening is cardamom in its truest form—sharp, resinous, almost medicinal, with none of the sweetness often grafted onto spice accords.
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.
- Iris80
- Woody70
- Leather70
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Leather
- Iris
- Sandalwood
- Sandalwood
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is cardamom in its truest form—sharp, resinous, almost medicinal, with none of the sweetness often grafted onto spice accords. It clears the air rather than warming it. As it settles, leather emerges not as saddle or polish but as something drier, more like suede dusted with iris root. The iris itself stays powdery and restrained, lending a cool mineral quality that keeps the leather from turning heavy.
Sandalwood in the base provides a smooth, creamy foundation, though the composition remains surprisingly lean throughout. The oud reference in the name is more conceptual than literal—there's a dark, woody austerity here that suggests oud's austere side without its animalic intensity.
This is fragrance for someone who wants the gravitas of traditional oud compositions but prefers clarity over opacity. It wears close, almost contemplative, suitable for quiet rooms and considered gestures.
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.
