1 Million Golden Oud
The opening is bright-spicy in the Middle Eastern register — black pepper, saffron, bergamot, nutmeg — sharp without being austere.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Oud80
- Leather70
- Patchouli60
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is bright-spicy in the Middle Eastern register — black pepper, saffron, bergamot, nutmeg — sharp without being austere. The heart of sandalwood and patchouli pivots quickly toward the base, which is where the fragrance lives.
Oud, leather, and labdanum settle into a dense, slightly sweet resin: not the medicinal oud of niche, but a rounded, polished version sanded down for mainstream skin. The saffron carries through the dry-down and keeps the leather from going too gourmand. It projects steadily and lasts well into the evening.
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.
