Musk Aoud Absolue Précieux
Lemon and bergamot flash a brief, bright citrus before ylang-ylang folds a custard-rich sweetness around rose petals, making the heart powdery and humid.
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.
- Leather90
- Oud70
- Smoky70
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- May Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot flash a brief, bright citrus before ylang-ylang folds a custard-rich sweetness around rose petals, making the heart powdery and humid. Rose’s honeyed edge bridges straight into the base, where oud’s band-aid funk is scrubbed with birch tar into a smoky leather panel that smells like hot brakes on a classic car. Tonka, vanilla, and labdanum pour ambered caramel over the smoke while oakmoss keeps the chassis dry; ambrette seeds add a winey, pear-skin musk that lifts the whole structure away from syrup. After three hours the leather softens to suedelike suede, the oud settles to a clean, medicinal wood, and a salted skin-musk aura lingers for ten more. Projection stays intimate yet persistent; best for cool evenings or tailored fall days when you want quiet gravitas rather than theater.
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.
