Oud
Leather dominates first, a dry black-hide accord sharpened by bitter-orange peel and cracked black pepper that scatters dust across the surface.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Leather90
- Woody70
- Balsamic60
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Bitter Orange
- Leather
- Oud
- Black Pepper
- Neroli
- Vetiver
- Frankincense
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Saffron
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readLeather dominates first, a dry black-hide accord sharpened by bitter-orange peel and cracked black pepper that scatters dust across the surface. As the pelt warms, oud emerges—not barnyard sour but a clean, resin-sliced wood that lets frankincense and vetiver thread smoke through the grain. Tonka, vanilla and amber melt underneath, creating a soft-balsamic bed that lets saffron’s hay-honey glow ride the leather like late-afternoon sunlight on saddle leather. Patchouli stays quiet, adding only a cocoa-brown earth echo that keeps the base from turning gourmand. Projection radiates one-arm’s-length for six hours before collapsing to a vanilla-tobacco skin musk that still carries a leather outline. Cool evenings, dark coats, city streets.
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.
