Aoud Amber Rose
Grapefruit and guaiac wood open the composition — bitter citrus over a smoky-sweet wood, an unusual pairing that sets up the rose to come.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Rose65
- Oud65
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Guaiac Wood
- Grapefruit
- Saffron
- Rose
- White Musk
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and guaiac wood open the composition — bitter citrus over a smoky-sweet wood, an unusual pairing that sets up the rose to come. The heart is rose with saffron, the saffron giving the rose a slightly leathery undertone without taking it into oud territory directly.
The base is where the agarwood arrives, supported by white musk, Virginia cedar, and more guaiac. Despite the name, no actual amber appears in the pyramid — the warmth is wood-and-musk rather than balsamic. Reads as a saffron-rose-oud composition with the citrus bookending it, not the gourmand-amber the title suggests.
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.
