Aoud
Aoud begins with the briefest citrus flash — lemon and bergamot, gone in minutes — before ylang-ylang and May rose declare themselves in the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- May Rose
- Sandalwood
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readAoud begins with the briefest citrus flash — lemon and bergamot, gone in minutes — before ylang-ylang and May rose declare themselves in the heart. The florals are not soft here; they carry a waxy, almost medicinal quality that bridges the opening to what follows. The base is the point: dark oud alongside sandalwood, cinnamon, saffron, and ambergris builds a dense oriental architecture that reads more Persian than Arabian — layered, slightly animalic, deeply resinous. Vanilla and musk soften the edges without reducing the weight. Built for people who want their skin to smell like a rare material rather than a finished perfume.
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.