United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates was created as a tribute fragrance, and it smells like one: serious, ceremonial, designed to project cultural weight rather than individual personality.
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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
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Clove
- May Rose
- Oakmoss
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readUnited Arab Emirates was created as a tribute fragrance, and it smells like one: serious, ceremonial, designed to project cultural weight rather than individual personality. Bergamot is the solitary top note — it barely registers before the ylang-ylang and rose heart begin and the base rushes forward. Oud dominates that base, but it shares space with frankincense, cypriol's dark earthy sharpness, cumin's body-close warmth, and the sweet-resinous interplay of labdanum and benzoin. Oakmoss gives a classical European grounding to an otherwise Middle Eastern blueprint. Dense, ceremonial, and assertive — this is not a crowd fragrance but rather one that demands its own context.
Scent twins
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