Musk Aoud
Musk Aoud opens with a clean, bright citrus — lemon and bergamot doing the preliminary work of lightening what will become a considerably denser experience.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Floral65
- Musky65
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readMusk Aoud opens with a clean, bright citrus — lemon and bergamot doing the preliminary work of lightening what will become a considerably denser experience. The heart is a classical trio: jasmine, ylang-ylang, and rose arranged with the deliberateness of a perfumer who knows these materials well. The ylang brings warmth; the jasmine, an indolic depth; the rose, structural clarity.
The base is ambitious in its accumulation: oakmoss for green, mossy weight; leather and birch for a smoky, animalic note; sandalwood and tonka for sweetness; nutmeg and musk as the final layer of complexity. The overall effect is deep and considered — a fragrance that unfolds over hours, revealing new facets as earlier accords recede. Dense projection, suited for colder evenings.
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.
