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.
- Leather60
- Patchouli55
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Rose
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readMoon Aoud opens dark and dry. Saffron leads with its warm-metallic tang, and rose tucks in close behind — not the fresh-cut variety but a deeper, almost dried rose that pairs naturally with the spice.
Leather emerges fast in the heart, propped up by vetiver's earthy bite and patchouli's smoky-sweet depth. The base is where it relaxes: sandalwood smooths the leather, amber adds a warm resin glow, and the whole thing settles into a long-burning skin scent that retains its dryness rather than going gourmand. Despite the name, no literal oud in the construction; the oud impression is built from saffron, leather, and dark resins. Cold-weather, formal, late-night.
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.