Oud Al Melka
Saffron flashes bright and leathery across the first breath, its metallic edge sharpened by cardamom’s cool-green snap while cedar splinters add dry wood dust.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Balsamic60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Saffron
- Cedar
- Cardamom
- Ylang-Ylang
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron flashes bright and leathery across the first breath, its metallic edge sharpened by cardamom’s cool-green snap while cedar splinters add dry wood dust. The heart is almost monastic: ylang-ylang arrives muted, stripped of custard sweetness, instead lending a waxy yellow glow that softens the spices and prepares the skin for resinous darkness. Baseline tonka pours warm hay and soft almond, olibanum lifts frankincense smoke, labdanum spreads tarred amber, and clean musk stitches the accord so the oud reconstruction never tilts animalic. On skin the scent folds inward after ninety minutes, becoming a lacquered wooden box scent rather than a room-filler. Dry-down stays linear resin and sweet balsam, excellent for cool evenings when you want subtle exoticism without smoke.
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.
