Oud Noir
A dense spiced opening — cinnamon, frankincense, incense, saffron, nutmeg, and coffee stacked together.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Saffron
- Nutmeg
- Coffee
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readA dense spiced opening — cinnamon, frankincense, incense, saffron, nutmeg, and coffee stacked together. Coffee adds a roasted bitter edge, the spice cluster crackles warm and resinous, and saffron threads metallic-leather through the whole arrangement. It reads gourmand and incensed at once.
The heart turns leathery-fruited: leather, birch, plum, and praline. Birch adds a smoky-tar shadow against leather's suede, plum brings dark fruit sweetness, praline a nutty-caramelised edge. The cluster pulls toward an adult, almost decadent register.
The base resolves into oud, sandalwood, amber, vanilla, and cedar. Oud's medicinal depth is moderated by vanilla and amber's warmth, sandalwood and cedar providing wood structure. Overall a heavy spiced-leather oriental with coffee and oud accents, projecting strongly through cold-weather evenings.
Scent twins
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