Nawab of Oudh Parfum
Cardamom and bergamot open in a cool, peppery flash that reads more savoury than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Oud85
- Cinnamon55
- Rose55
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Aldehydes
- Green Notes
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Magnolia
- Orchid
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom and bergamot open in a cool, peppery flash that reads more savoury than sweet. Within minutes the spice deepens — a dry cinnamon thread laces through magnolia and rose, the floral heart kept dim and incense-adjacent rather than dewy.
The drydown is where the parfum concentration earns itself. Oud arrives smoke-forward, propped up by labdanum's resinous warmth and a long, salty whisper of ambergris. Vetiver runs underneath like wet root, anchoring everything against the muskier finish.
It projects close to the skin for the first hour, then settles into a heavier, hour-by-hour bloom. Best on cold evenings, layered against wool or leather; too dense for daytime warmth.
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.
