Oud Alshain
Leather dominates the opening, its dark tannic bite sharpened by neroli’s metallic citrus edge and osmanthus’s apricot-leather nuance.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Iris70
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Neroli
- Osmanthus
- Orris
- Cedar
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readLeather dominates the opening, its dark tannic bite sharpened by neroli’s metallic citrus edge and osmanthus’s apricot-leather nuance. The heart folds orris’s cool carrot-root dust into cedar’s pencil-shaving dryness, letting iris amplify the powdery aspect while rose adds a muted blood-pink glow that keeps the accord from turning austere. Over hours the base emerges as a smoky oud-patchouli tandem steeped in amber’s resinous heat; musk stretches the composition so the leather never collapses into tar. Sandalwood steams the final phase, softening oud’s band-aid rubber edge into a supple, wearable skin scent that still projects a two-foot leather-oud halo. Cool evenings, formal dinners, fall through winter.
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.
