Oud Oriental Saba
Black pepper crackles first, its dry heat amplified by saffron’s leathery iodine, creating an austere spice screen that scatters light.
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.
- Warm Spicy80
- Soft Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Cinnamon
- Cedar
- Rose
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, its dry heat amplified by saffron’s leathery iodine, creating an austere spice screen that scatters light. Cinnamon soon swells through the pepper cracks, its red-hot sweetness welding to cedar’s pencil-shaving dryness while a muted rosewater note hovers just enough to soften the edges without announcing flowers. The rose recedes quickly, leaving cinnamon to dominate the heart, turning the wood into a glowing, resin-crusted plank rather than a forest floor. Labdanum in the base stretches the spice into a dark, tarry amber that clings close to skin, projecting a low, ember-like warmth for hours. Sillage stays within arm’s length; the scent feels built for cool evenings, dark bars, or layered under wool.
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.
