Bakhoor
Bakhoor is Arabic incense — charcoal blocks layered with resins, woods, and oud smoke — and this interpretation names its reference accurately.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Oud80
- Smoky75
- Leather70
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Tanned Leather
- Oud
- Saffron
- Agarwood (Oud)
- Mysore Sandalwood
- Haitian Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBakhoor is Arabic incense — charcoal blocks layered with resins, woods, and oud smoke — and this interpretation names its reference accurately. Oud and tanned leather open together, heavy and resinous, joined by saffron that adds a honeyed, metallic quality. There is no pretense at brightness: the opening is atmospheric, interior, warm.
Himalayan cedar, Haitian vetiver, and Mysore sandalwood form the heart, all three dry and grounding. Gaiac wood moves into the base alongside ambergris and white musk — the woods continue through, smoothed by marine-amber warmth. This is a room-filling fragrance appropriate for evening wear in cold months. If the Montale line as a whole is known for projection, this sits at the louder end of that already generous spectrum.
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.
