Oud Pashmina
Oud Pashmina opens with an unusual pairing: crystallized sugar and lemon alongside saffron and incense, creating simultaneous sweetness and smoke.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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
- Leather70
- Smoky65
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Crystallized Sugar
- Incense
- Saffron
- Lemon
- Leather
- Oud
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readOud Pashmina opens with an unusual pairing: crystallized sugar and lemon alongside saffron and incense, creating simultaneous sweetness and smoke. The sugar note is distinct — more candied than powdery — and keeps the opening from settling into purely resinous territory. The heart is firmly in Montale's oud tradition: leather, rose, oud, and patchouli in close formation, deep and deliberate. What distinguishes this from earlier house entries is the base — mate absolute and oakmoss introduce a green, slightly bitter dryness that prevents the amber from resolving into pure sweetness.
The result is a rich, layered composition with more complexity than a standard oud-amber construction. Long-wearing and high-projecting. Best in cooler months and evening or formal settings.
Scent twins
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