Shawq
Shawq is Swiss Arabian's most Western-facing composition — a Creed Aventus echo built for the Gulf heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Musky70
- Citrus70
- Fresh50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Lime
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Birch
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readShawq is Swiss Arabian's most Western-facing composition — a Creed Aventus echo built for the Gulf heat. The opening fires pineapple and black currant against a bergamot backbone: sharp, fruity, unmistakably familiar to anyone who has spent time in the niche citrus-chypre space. It wears the reference openly, without apology.
The birch and lily of the valley heart brings a green, slightly smoky note that gives the citrus structure. By the base, ambroxan does what ambroxan does — amplifying skin warmth and projecting a musk-forward halo that lingers well past the initial brightness. For a fraction of the price of its inspirations, Shawq delivers good longevity and a clean, confident silage. Best on someone who wants a crowd-pleasing fresh-fruity without the designer price tag.
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.
