Nero Oudh
Nero Oudh opens unusually floral for an oud — magnolia and ylang-ylang lifted by saffron's warm, slightly leathery glow, with cypriol adding a smoky, earthy edge underneath the petals.
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.
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Cypriol
- Ylang-Ylang
- Saffron
- Guaiac Wood
- Bulgarian Rose
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readNero Oudh opens unusually floral for an oud — magnolia and ylang-ylang lifted by saffron's warm, slightly leathery glow, with cypriol adding a smoky, earthy edge underneath the petals. The heart pulls toward darker wood: guaiac and cedar coil around a Bulgarian rose, with violet softening the wood's smokiness into something almost velvety.
The drydown leans on the house signature — ambergris, sandalwood, and white musk — sweetened by vanilla and dirtied by patchouli. The oud reads more in implication than in literal medicinal blast: a smoke-and-resin character that frames the florals rather than overwhelms them. Long-lasting, softly projecting, made for cold-weather evenings and indoor formal wear.
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.
