Emir Oud and Vanille
Agarwood opens dry and medicinal, its sharp oud bite framed by crackling black pepper and dusty saffron that scorch the top for a full thirty minutes.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Agarwood
- Sandalwood
- Guaiac Wood
- Madagascar Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readAgarwood opens dry and medicinal, its sharp oud bite framed by crackling black pepper and dusty saffron that scorch the top for a full thirty minutes. The spices drop away, letting the oud relax into a cleaner, slightly sweet wood that picks up creamy sandalwood and the faint campfire nuance of guaiac. Madagascar vanilla arrives late, not sugary but more like cured tobacco leaf, softening the embers without turning the scent gourmand; the result is a resinous, softly smoky wood accord that stays close to skin. Projection remains polite, a skin-to-arm’s-length aura that endures eight hours on fabric, longer where it’s sprayed on hair or cuffs. Cool evenings, smart-casual dinners, autumn through early spring are its natural habitat.
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.
