Essencial Oud
Essencial Oud opens in a spiced rush — saffron and dual peppers alongside cardamom and bergamot, apricot adding stone-fruit richness to an aggressively warm opening.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 20 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.
- Amber60
- Vanilla55
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Apricot
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readEssencial Oud opens in a spiced rush — saffron and dual peppers alongside cardamom and bergamot, apricot adding stone-fruit richness to an aggressively warm opening. Cinnamon, jasmine, and rose at the heart push toward sweetness; praline bridges the spiced top with the rich base. Ambergris, ambroxan, and cashmeran create a luminous, skin-adhering warmth, vanilla and patchouli rounding it out. Despite the name, oud is absent — this is a rich spiced oriental in its own right, the name gesturing at Eastern opulence rather than the literal ingredient. Complex, dense, and built for cold weather.
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.
