Harrods Aoud
May Rose arrives already steeped in the base, its petals folded into hot cinnamon and oud so the flower smells cured rather than fresh.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Balsamic100
- Cinnamon90
- Oud90
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- May Rose
- Sandalwood
- Cinnamon
- Oud
- Myrrh
- Frankincense
- Cypriol
By the editors · 2 min readMay Rose arrives already steeped in the base, its petals folded into hot cinnamon and oud so the flower smells cured rather than fresh. The cinnamon-oud accord dominates, resinous myrrh and frankincense reinforcing the medicinal bite while cypriol adds singed-dry vetiver smoke. Sandalwood tries to soften the furnace but labdanum, benzoin and vanilla only thicken the tar, turning the heart into a dark amber paste that clings like molasses. After three hours the smoke relaxes into leathery patchouli and musk, yet the overall profile stays dense, sweet-spicy and animalic, projecting a two-foot resinous aura for most of a winter evening.
Scent twins
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