Crystal Aoud
Crystal Aoud opens with melon, mandarin, and green apple — fruit that reads bright and slightly aqueous rather than candied.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Vanilla55
- Patchouli55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Green Apple
- Melon
- Mandarin Orange
- Sandalwood
- Oud
- Patchouli
- Agarwood (Oud)
By the editors · 2 min readCrystal Aoud opens with melon, mandarin, and green apple — fruit that reads bright and slightly aqueous rather than candied. The sweetness of melon is a useful counterweight to what follows: oud, teak wood, and patchouli move in at the heart and pull the fragrance into much darker territory. This is a good illustration of the style — sweetness on top, agarwood underneath, and the contrast between the two is the point.
The base is vanilla, saffron's warmth, and white musk — completing a standard Montale oriental arc. The melon note thins significantly after an hour; what remains is largely oud and wood. Longevity and projection run high. Despite the name implying clarity, this is a warm evening fragrance that wears dense.
Scent twins
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