Aoud
Roja Dove's Aoud opens with the obligatory citrus—bergamot and lemon—but these are brief, evaporating within minutes to reveal the architecture below.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Sandalwood60
- Rose60
- Cinnamon50
- Jasmine50
- Vanilla50
By the editors · 2 min readRoja Dove's Aoud opens with the obligatory citrus—bergamot and lemon—but these are brief, evaporating within minutes to reveal the architecture below. May rose, jasmine, and ylang-ylang unfurl in the heart, lush and dense, the ylang-ylang lending a slightly rubbery, tropical edge that offsets the cleaner rose. Saffron threads through everything, metallic and honey-warm, binding the florals to what comes next.
The base is the point: sandalwood and cedar anchored by leather, ambergris, cinnamon, patchouli, nutmeg, and vanilla—a layered, unhurried oriental built in the full tradition of the form. Nothing here is restrained. The result is heavy, tenacious, and unambiguous—the kind of fragrance that enters a room and stays.
