Collection Excessive - Oud Shamash
A spiced amber-musk built more on warmth than ostentation.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- White Musk
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readA spiced amber-musk built more on warmth than ostentation. Saffron and pink pepper open with a dry, slightly leathery prick — sharp without being aggressive. The opening keeps that tension for a while; there's no traditional floral heart to soften it.
The base is the body: ambergris and white musk lend a salty, mineral warmth, with sandalwood and patchouli providing wood-and-earth ballast. Without rose or oud as named notes here, the perfume reads less ornate than its name suggests — closer to a refined skin-warm spiced wood than a heavy oriental. Cool weather, intimate projection, evening or quiet day.
Scent twins
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