Shumoukh Al Ghutra
Shumoukh Al Ghutra opens with a sharp green-apple bite over galbanum and violet — galbanum lends a bitter, almost stem-like quality that keeps the apple from going candied.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Leather70
- Fresh50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Galbanum
- Violet
- Leather
- Cedar
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readShumoukh Al Ghutra opens with a sharp green-apple bite over galbanum and violet — galbanum lends a bitter, almost stem-like quality that keeps the apple from going candied. It's a brief, vivid top that resolves quickly.
The heart drops into leather and cedar, where the composition shows its hand: this is a smooth, modern leather rather than birch-tar smoky. Cedar adds a dry pencil-shavings spine to the suede. The base is short on listed material — vanilla and musk — but does enough to soften the leather and pull the dry-down into something wearable rather than austere.
Wears as a confident daytime-into-evening fragrance, more masculine-leaning, suited to cool weather and formal contexts.
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.




