Soul Of Oud
Vetiver opens dry and grassy, its earthy rootiness immediately framing the composition with a slightly smoky, mineral edge that feels like sun-baked soil.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Vetiver
- Cocoa
- Osmanthus
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readVetiver opens dry and grassy, its earthy rootiness immediately framing the composition with a slightly smoky, mineral edge that feels like sun-baked soil. Within minutes cocoa folds in, not as syrupy chocolate but as a bitter, dusty cacao that softens the vetiver’s bite while adding dark-brown depth; the two materials lock together in a taut, bittersweet accord that stays close to the skin. Osmanthus hovers quietly, lending a faintly apricot-leather nuance that keeps the cocoa from turning edible, pulling the scent back toward woods rather than dessert. Musk fills the base, rounding edges with clean skin-wamthess so the dry-down feels like vetiver-cocoa sifted through soft suede; projection stays polite, perfect for contemplative fall days when you want scent, not statement.
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.
