Bois d‘Oud
Bois d'Oud opens with a customary bergamot note — a clean interval that buys the wearer a moment before the real composition begins.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Oud65
- Floral60
- Rose55
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Jasmine
- Plum
- Peach
- Orange Blossom
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readBois d'Oud opens with a customary bergamot note — a clean interval that buys the wearer a moment before the real composition begins. What follows is an ambitious floral heart: jasmine and rose at their most opulent, peach and plum adding fleshy, slightly fermented fruit, orange blossom threading through everything with its clean, honeyed presence. Iris adds structural pallor against the richness.
The base is where the 'bois' component exerts its authority — labdanum, ambergris, and musk create a dense animalic-resinous foundation that is the signature of classical oud wood construction, even when oud itself remains unnamed in the note list. Cedar and patchouli add dry, earthy geometry. Vanilla smooths the edges without sweetening the whole.
This is unambiguously niche in posture: a perfume built for concentration and wearing, not accessibility. It projects heavily in the first hour, then draws intimate. The Perris Monte Carlo school of restraint through saturation.
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.
