Dark Oud
Sandalwood opens dry and blond, immediately swirled with a resinous amber that thickens the wood into a lacquered glow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Jasmine
- Tobacco
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readSandalwood opens dry and blond, immediately swirled with a resinous amber that thickens the wood into a lacquered glow. Jasmine lands next, its indolic sweetness briefly lifting the heft before tobacco leaf folds the floral heart into a cured, almost honeyed darkness. Oud accord in the base is more smoldering chip than barnyard, letting the previous layers smoulder rather than burn, so the wear stays polished and office-tolerant. Mid-stage the amber re-liquefies, letting a creamy sandal echo ride quietly above the tobacco-oud ember for hours. Projection stays within arm’s length; best suited to cool autumn nights or a smart-casual Friday.
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.