Luxor
Luxor opens with a rare combination: cinnamon and cardamom provide the expected oriental spice, but leather appears in the top notes — unusual placement that announces the composition's intent from the first moment.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Oud80
- Incense75
- Leather60
- Cinnamon50
- Tobacco50
By the editors · 2 min readLuxor opens with a rare combination: cinnamon and cardamom provide the expected oriental spice, but leather appears in the top notes — unusual placement that announces the composition's intent from the first moment. This is not a gradual reveal; it is a direct statement of character.
The heart is an incense-forward accord of considerable depth — incense and myrrh build the sacred-resinous core, tobacco adds a dry, slightly bitter edge, and Atlas cedar provides structural clarity amid the richness. Chris Maurice keeps the combination from becoming murky: each note is distinct, the layering deliberate rather than accumulated.
Oud, cypriol, and patchouli close in a base of extraordinary density. The oud is deep and animalic; cypriol adds its characteristically smoky, peppery-woody depth. This is Xerjoff's Oud Stars line at full projection — a fragrance built for maximum presence and cold-weather formality.
