Terryfic Oud
The composition opens directly into its heart — iris and rose entering together in cool partnership.
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.
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Iris
- Rose
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe composition opens directly into its heart — iris and rose entering together in cool partnership. Iris reads carroty and powdery, while rose contributes a velvety floral roundness that warms the otherwise austere opening.
As it develops, patchouli emerges underneath with an earthy, slightly damp depth, and amber threads warmth through the floral structure. The iris carries a dusty, slightly metallic edge that keeps the composition from going overly plush.
Musk anchors the drydown close to skin. Despite the name, the oud signal is subtle — more an implication of woody darkness than a literal agarwood. The overall character is a powdery iris-rose composition on a warm patchouli-amber base, reading as polished and slightly mysterious rather than loudly oriental.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
