Oud Assam
Bergamot lifts the opening cleanly, but the structure is so base-heavy that the citrus barely lingers before frankincense and black pepper take over.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Smoky60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Black Pepper
- Vetiver
- Olibanum
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot lifts the opening cleanly, but the structure is so base-heavy that the citrus barely lingers before frankincense and black pepper take over. The pyramid skips a heart entirely, so the transition from sparkle to smoke is almost immediate.
The drydown leans into resinous olibanum smoke, dry cedar, and a green-rooty vetiver. Tonka adds a mild creamy sweetness that softens the pepper without turning gourmand. Musk binds the woods close.
Despite the name, oud itself is implied rather than literal here — the impression is more of a smoky, peppered woody-incense composition than a true agarwood profile. The overall feel is austere, dry, and meditative rather than opulent.
Scent twins
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