Oud-Couture Zarkoperfume 2016 Parfum-Serum
Neroli opens clean and slightly metallic, its orange-blossom brightness sheared by bergamot’s terse citrus edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Woody70
- Soft Spicy60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Black Pepper
- Vanilla
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli opens clean and slightly metallic, its orange-blossom brightness sheared by bergamot’s terse citrus edge. Black pepper lands immediately, crackling across the white petals and pushing the composition into a dry, spicy heart where cardamom’s cool green seed and a restrained vanilla soften the snap without adding sugar. The oud here is stripped of barnyard funk; instead it arrives as a warm, medicinal wood that fuses with sandalwood and rosewood to form a seamless blond timber panel polished by vetiver’s quiet smoke. Over six hours the pepper recedes, letting the woods absorb the last vanilla so the skin smells like freshly cut hardwood lightly lacquered. Projection stays within arm’s length, making it office-safe yet present through a workday; cool autumn air sharpens the wood and extends wear.
Scent twins
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