Tender Oud
Saffron dominates the opening, its leathery dryness immediately setting a spare, medicinal tone that the grapefruit sharpens rather than sweetens.
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.
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Cypriol
- Atlas Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron dominates the opening, its leathery dryness immediately setting a spare, medicinal tone that the grapefruit sharpens rather than sweetens. Cardamom adds a cool, almost green edge, but the trio stays angular, refusing the usual warm spice comfort. Cypriol enters early, amplifying the saffron’s leather with a clean, smoky wood that feels like cedar already smoldering. By the time Atlas cedar arrives in the base, the composition has folded into a single, tight plank of dry wood streaked with the last shreds of grapefruit pith. Musk is present yet subdued, letting the cedar’s cool resin and the lingering saffron tannin create a papery skin scent that projects no farther than forearm distance. The wear is linear after the first twenty minutes: a quiet, matte timber panel suitable for close-office days or cool spring evenings when you want wood without sweetness.
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.
