A Oud Ancienne
Agarwood opens dense and tarry, immediately staking out a dark woody-oud territory that feels almost crude in its intensity.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Oud90
- Mossy70
- Animalic60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Agarwood
- Labdanum
- Castoreum
- Oakmoss
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readAgarwood opens dense and tarry, immediately staking out a dark woody-oud territory that feels almost crude in its intensity. Labdanum arrives next, stretching resinous amber across the oud’s rough grain while castoreum injects a musky, almost urinous growl that keeps the sweetness in check. Oakmoss then blankets the heart, turning the accord cool and damp, a forest-floor cushion that mutes the animalics and lets the composition breathe. Ylang-Ylang slips quietly underneath, offering a muted custard-yellow floral that softens the final hour without ever announcing itself as pretty. The dry-down stays bitter, mossy and faintly leathery, projecting an arm-length radius for six hours before collapsing to skin. Cool, rainy fall days and unstructured evening plans suit its brooding character best.
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.
