Aoud Purple Rose
Aoud Purple Rose opens with saffron's metallic warmth alongside blackberry's tartness, placing the rose in an earthy, slightly dark register from the start.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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
- Cherry70
- Rose65
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Blackberry
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Oud
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readAoud Purple Rose opens with saffron's metallic warmth alongside blackberry's tartness, placing the rose in an earthy, slightly dark register from the start. In the heart, oud is dense and smoky, flanked by sandalwood's creaminess and patchouli's soil — the three work in close formation, none yielding much ground to the others. Leather and ambergris in the base extend the composition into a long animalic trail.
This is Montale's oud line operating at full intensity: heavy projection, long-wearing, unapologetically rich. The rose never becomes delicate here — it's inseparable from the resin and leather around it. For cooler months, evening wear, and occasions where presence is the intention.
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.
