Splendid Wood
Splendid Wood opens on incense and cardamom — a dry-spice pairing that telegraphs the oud-forward composition to follow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Smoky70
- Woody60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Cardamom
- Jasmine Sambac
- Cypriol Oil
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readSplendid Wood opens on incense and cardamom — a dry-spice pairing that telegraphs the oud-forward composition to follow. There's nothing soft here at the opening: the cardamom is bright but immediately anchored by the resinous smoke of incense, giving the first minutes a contemplative, almost ceremonial quality.
Jasmine sambac bridges to the base without sweetening the composition; it provides a brief floral breath before oud, cypriol, and cedar take over completely. The base is dense — oud and cypriol together produce an earthy, petroleum-like richness that sits atop cedar's cleaner wood. A serious unisex composition for cooler months, projecting clearly and lasting long.
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.
