Alhambra Oud
Alhambra Oud opens with apple and orange blossom, a pairing that reads as lightly fruity-floral rather than sweet, with the blossom lending a powdery softness from the start.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Floral70
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Orange Blossom
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Birch
- Ambroxan
By the editors · 2 min readAlhambra Oud opens with apple and orange blossom, a pairing that reads as lightly fruity-floral rather than sweet, with the blossom lending a powdery softness from the start.
Jasmine and rose fill the heart, presenting as a fairly traditional white-floral-meets-rose core. The florals are not sharp — they lean round and somewhat creamy, without projecting dramatically.
Birch and ambroxan in the base shift the mood toward a smooth, woody-ambery drydown. The birch introduces a faint smoky quality, while ambroxan gives the skin a warm, diffusive glow. Despite the oud in the name, the pyramid contains no listed oud note; the character reads more as a fruity floral with a clean woody finish than a true oud composition.
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.
