Taif Aoud Roja Parfums 2014 Parfum
Taif Aoud is the house's straight take on the rose-and-oud pairing.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Oud75
- Rose65
- Balsamic55
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Aldehydes
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Blackcurrant
- Clove
- Rose Geranium
- May Rose
By the editors · 2 min readTaif Aoud is the house's straight take on the rose-and-oud pairing. Bergamot brightens the opening for a few minutes, then May rose and ylang-ylang move forward, lifted by a sharp burst of clove. The flowers stay legible rather than getting buried.
Underneath, oud sits broad and slightly medicinal, ringed by frankincense, labdanum and benzoin. Vanilla and patchouli round the close, musk pulls it tight to the skin. There's no twist — it's a classical Middle Eastern accord built with expensive materials and held in conventional proportions. Heavy, slow-moving, unapologetically dense; better-suited to cool air than heat, where the resins can breathe without going syrupy.
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.
