Valentina Oud Assoluto
Valentina Oud Assoluto opens with cardamom's green warmth cutting through orange blossom, a spiced floral introduction that quickly gives way to the perfume's leathery heart.
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.
- Oud75
- Leather70
- Rose60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Cardamom
- Leather
- Oud
- Bulgarian Rose
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readValentina Oud Assoluto opens with cardamom's green warmth cutting through orange blossom, a spiced floral introduction that quickly gives way to the perfume's leathery heart. The oud here isn't the barnyard medicinal kind—it's smoothed into something closer to polished wood, bracketed by Bulgarian rose that adds a jammy softness without turning sweet. Leather ties it all together, more suede glove than motorcycle jacket.
As it settles, vanilla and saffron round the edges without erasing the structure. The drydown remains surprisingly firm for a composition with this much comfort built in. This is oud for someone who wants the idea of it—the richness, the depth—without the confrontation. It skews feminine through its rose and vanilla, but the leather keeps it from feeling delicate. A winter evening perfume that works equally well in a cashmere sweater or something more tailored.
Scent twins
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