Musk Aoud
Musk Aoud draws the oud tradition toward something softer and more carnal.
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
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- May Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readMusk Aoud draws the oud tradition toward something softer and more carnal. The lemon-bergamot opening is perfunctory — a signal of what house this comes from — before ylang-ylang and May rose give a brief floral hinge, and then the base opens wide. Birch brings smokiness, oud supplies the resinous dark core, leather adds structure, and a dense musk complex built around ambrette makes the whole construction feel skin-close despite its considerable sillage. Tonka bean and vanilla prevent this from becoming austere. The overall effect is of walking into a room where someone very expensive has recently been: warm skin, wood, quiet smoke.
Scent twins
In this family
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