Alpha Aoud
Bulgarian rose and nutmeg create an opulent heart where floral sweetness meets warm, peppery spice.
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.
- Warm Spicy60
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Bulgarian Rose
- Nutmeg
- Birch
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBulgarian rose and nutmeg create an opulent heart where floral sweetness meets warm, peppery spice. The rose is deep and slightly jammy, while nutmeg adds a dry, aromatic edge that prevents cloying richness. Birch tar introduces a smoky, leathery undertone that contrasts sharply with the floral core, creating tension. Labdanum provides a resinous, ambery base that blends with patchouli's earthy darkness to ground the composition. This scent evolves from floral-spicy to a smoky, resinous dry-down with significant projection. Longevity is extended, suited for evening wear in cooler seasons where its bold character can unfold fully.
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.




