Shaghaf Oud Elixir
Oud opens dense and resinous, streaked with saffron’s metallic leather edge and a brief pink-pepper flash that pricks the nose before vanishing.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Warm Spicy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Oud
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Sage
- Oud
- Rose
- Praline
By the editors · 2 min readOud opens dense and resinous, streaked with saffron’s metallic leather edge and a brief pink-pepper flash that pricks the nose before vanishing. The heart folds in a dry sage leaf that muffles the wood’s tar, while rose adds a thin, jammy red line and praline supplies a toasted-nut sweetness that keeps the oud from turning harshly medicinal. Over the first hour the accord thickens: ambergris warms, vanilla softens, musk pulls everything closer to skin, so the oud smells more like smouldering, caramelised incense chips than raw barnwood. Projection drops steadily, leaving a sweet, resinous, slightly animalic trail that lingers on fabric through an evening. Cool autumn or winter nights, semi-formal dinners, moderate sillage arm-length radius.
Scent twins
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