Soir d'Orient
Soir d'Orient is a warm, resinous eastern composition that skips the usual oud-heavy formula for something softer and more diffuse.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Amber80
- Patchouli60
- Leather40
- Oud
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Black Pepper
- Sandalwood
- Incense
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readSoir d'Orient is a warm, resinous eastern composition that skips the usual oud-heavy formula for something softer and more diffuse. Saffron leads — that rich, leathery spice — with a quiet rose in close support, the floral kept restrained so it doesn't turn syrupy.
The base does the real work: labdanum and amber folded into a woody-balsamic drydown that sits close to the skin and lasts. Projection is modest; this isn't a room-filler. It reads best in cold weather, under wool, worn by someone who likes oriental perfumes but finds most of them too loud. A fireplace fragrance — intimate, adult, no performance anxiety.
Scent twins
In this family
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