The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Amber85
- Cinnamon80
- Musky80
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Fig
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readAmber Aoud opens with a brief citrus flicker—bergamot and lime—before saffron and cinnamon flood in, staining the air crimson and resinous. The spice here isn't decorative; it's structural, holding up walls of rose and jasmine that might otherwise drift too sweet. Fig adds a milky, bark-like texture in the heart, grounding the florals in something earthy and living.
The base is where Roja Dove's appetite for materials shows. Oakmoss and birch bring forest floor and smoke, while civet and ambergris—animal notes, whether natural or synthesized—lend a warm, skin-close muskiness that refuses to stay polite. Sandalwood and patchouli fill in the rest, creating a woody-amber scaffold that wears dense and enveloping.
This is a big, unabashedly opulent fragrance. It wants evening wear, cold weather, people who don't mind being noticed. If you're after subtlety or modern restraint, look elsewhere.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
