Aoud Absolue Précieux
Lemon and bergamot flash bright and brief before ylang-ylang’s creamy banana facet folds into May rose, creating a soft yellow-floral cushion that buffers the incoming spice avalanche.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Oud100
- Cinnamon80
- Warm Spicy80
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- May Rose
- Sandalwood
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot flash bright and brief before ylang-ylang’s creamy banana facet folds into May rose, creating a soft yellow-floral cushion that buffers the incoming spice avalanche. Cinnamon and nutmeg ignite first, their dry heat quickly joined by saffron’s leathery iodine edge; together they carve warm channels through the rose-ylang heart, letting oud’s medicinal camphor breathe without turning the scent into pure barnyard. As the top disappears, sandalwood’s milkiness and vanilla’s rounded sweetness begin to tame the oud and cinnamon, while ambergris adds a salty, skin-like glow that keeps the base from becoming a syrupy pudding. Patchouli arrives late, earthy and slightly chocolatey, tethering the creamy woods to the earlier spices so the fragrance stays cohesive for hours.
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.
