Aoud Sense
Opening notes of black pepper, clove, orange, and mandarin are spiced and citrus-warm simultaneously — the pepper is sharp, the clove rounds it, the orange keeps it from going fully austere.
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.
- Oud85
- Warm Spicy75
- Rose70
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Clove
- Orange
- Mandarin Orange
- Cloves
- Oud
- Bulgarian Rose
By the editors · 2 min readOpening notes of black pepper, clove, orange, and mandarin are spiced and citrus-warm simultaneously — the pepper is sharp, the clove rounds it, the orange keeps it from going fully austere. Oud and Bulgarian rose take the heart: a classic pairing for the house, though the rose here feels well-supported rather than dominant, the spice still audible underneath.
Haitian vetiver finishes the structure — earthy, slightly smoky, anchoring the rose and oud without competing with them. The composition is smaller in footprint than much of the Montale oud line, with a particularly legible dry-down. A fragrance for people who want the oud-rose pairing in a form that does not project aggressively. Fall and winter, evenings.
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.
