Oud Sublime
Cumin bursts forward with its sharp, slightly sweaty spice that immediately announces this as an animalic-leaning composition rather than a polite rose oud.
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.
- Leather60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Patchouli
- Atlas Cedar
- Rose
- Incense
- Amber
- Styrax
By the editors · 2 min readCumin bursts forward with its sharp, slightly sweaty spice that immediately announces this as an animalic-leaning composition rather than a polite rose oud. The heart layers Atlas cedar's dry pencil-shavings woodiness against patchouli's earthy camphor, while rose provides a dusty floral sweetness that prevents the spices from turning fully feral. As the composition settles, styrax and castoreum create a leathery, almost urinous undertone that clings to skin, while incense smoke weaves through amber's resinous warmth to produce a dark balsamic trail. The dry-down remains intimate, with musk amplifying the castoreum's beaver-fur facet so the scent wears like weathered leather infused with dried spice residue. Projection stays within arm's length for six hours, making it suitable for cool evenings when you want to smell deliberately untamed rather than groomed.
Scent twins
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