Oud Douce Amère
Olibanum and saffron launch first, the resin’s lemon-peel brightness cut by saffron’s hay-like dryness so the opening already feels smoky-bitter rather than sweet.
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.
- Tobacco80
- Honey60
- Smoky60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Olibanum
- Saffron
- Clary Sage
- Rose
- Violet Leaf
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readOlibanum and saffron launch first, the resin’s lemon-peel brightness cut by saffron’s hay-like dryness so the opening already feels smoky-bitter rather than sweet. A second, darker rose arrives in the heart, folded around violet leaf’s cool metal and honey’s faint wax so the tobacco gains a cured-leather chewiness without turning syrupy. Base layers read like a tanner’s shelf: castoreum and civet add a waxy fur undertone, ambergris salts the leather, while myrrh and labdanum keep the incense ember alive; cedar and patchouli merely stake the structure so the castoreum-honey accord can smolder for hours. After ninety minutes it settles to a close, resinous animalic skin-glow that projects only to handshake distance yet refuses to vanish. Cool fall nights, dark shirt, theater foyer: the perfume supplies the smoke, you supply the plot.
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.
