Oud Noir
Saffron and plum open thick and syrupy, staining the bright citrus into a bruised-purple glow that feels almost candied.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Leather80
- Animalic60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Plum
- Saffron
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Orris
- Magnolia
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and plum open thick and syrupy, staining the bright citrus into a bruised-purple glow that feels almost candied. The heart folds orris and magnolia into a waxy, violet-tinged leather that muffles the fruit while letting a dry cedar skeleton show through. Oud arrives early, not as smoke but as a sour, medicinal wood that clings to castoreum’s oily fur, so the base smells more like cured hide than burning incense. Vanilla and patchouli soften the angles yet never turn sweet, keeping the finish dark, salty, and faintly animalic. Projection sits at arm’s length for eight hours, perfect for cool evenings when you want the room to notice without announcing itself.
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.
