Oud Musc
Black pepper snaps open with a dry, woody crackle that immediately seeds the air with spicy heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Woody70
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Musk
- Oud
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, woody crackle that immediately seeds the air with spicy heat. The pepper’s pungency is quickly swallowed by a clean, skin-close musk that smooths the edges and adds a cottony, almost suede-like texture. Under this veil, oud emerges not as medicinal tar but as a cool, resinous wood streaked with frankincense smoke; the two resins layer into a translucent, incense-laced wood that never shouts or cloys. As the pepper recedes, musk and oud lock into a steady pulse: soft, slightly salty, diffusing a quiet campfire warmth that hovers just above skin skin. Projection stays polite—an arm-length halo—making it office-safe yet compelling through a full workday, especially in crisp fall or winter air.
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.
