Oud Santal
Sandalwood opens dry and papery, immediately wrapped by cumin’s sharp, sweaty heat that scours the wood’s creaminess.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Smoky60
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Cumin
- Styrax
- Clary Sage
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readSandalwood opens dry and papery, immediately wrapped by cumin’s sharp, sweaty heat that scours the wood’s creaminess. Styrax adds a smoky, le-plastic sheen while clary sage injects a bitter green flash, so the first impression is arid, medicinal, almost austere. The heart reiterates sandalwood, but the earlier spices have soaked in, turning it darker, drier, leathered, with a faint oily saltiness left by cumin. As it settles, the composition stays close, a monochrome wood-resin panel heated by skin chemistry rather than external projection. It lasts quietly for six-to-eight hours, projecting no farther than forearm distance, ideal for cool days when you want discreet, incense-inflected wood rather than creamy comfort.
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.
