The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Oud90
- Patchouli70
- Warm Spicy50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Agarwood (Oud)
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readUniversal Oud dispenses with preamble. Three notes, one direction: black pepper opens with a short, metallic dryness before giving way immediately to oud — woody, leathery, carrying that characteristic animalic depth expected from agarwood-based orientals. Patchouli closes the composition with a chocolatey, earthy grounding that amplifies the oud's dark quality rather than sweetening it.
There is no floral relief, no citrus brightness, no vanilla softness. This is a bare, focused composition aimed squarely at oud enthusiasts who want the material to speak without decoration. At the price point, the oud will read synthetic, but the character is preserved: intimate, resinous, built for cold weather and low-light occasions.
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.