Sensual Oud
Saffron and cloves open with the warm metallic-spice signature of a classic Arabian-inflected accord — immediately rich without turning dense.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Cloves
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
- Rose Petals
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and cloves open with the warm metallic-spice signature of a classic Arabian-inflected accord — immediately rich without turning dense. Rose petals bridge the spice into the middle, softening the transition while patchouli and sandalwood add earthiness and creaminess respectively. Oud anchors the composition with its characteristic smoky-woody depth, leather contributing an animalic dryness that keeps the amber from reading as purely sweet. Structurally familiar in the oud genre, Zara's version executes the template accessibly — the sillage is restrained compared to a traditional attar, which makes it more workable in daily contexts without losing the essential character.
Scent twins
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