which oud has the best sillage ?

ibn

New Member
#1
Sillage is a measure of the ability of a scent to broadcast into the area around the wearer and linger. Some ouds seem to stay close to the skin and some seem to leave a wonderful fragrance for others to share. If you have been in a room and someone walked by, perhaps many meters away, and left a scent trail of the oud they were wearing, this oud would be said to have good sillage.

Which of your ouds have the best sillage ?
 

Ensar Oud

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#2
Oud is an essential oil, and as such does not broadcast itself the way designer scents do, which are packed with potentiators or 'sillage enhancers'.

Most ouds contain very weak sillage, and this is something wearers of oud are happy with, because the meditative / contemplative nature of the scent is better suited as a personal fragrance.

That said, Crassna Cha has the stupidest sillage I've ever encountered in an oud oil. Walking into a room where someone is wearing a single swipe is almost tantamount to walking into a room where a slither of top notch Thai oud wood was just burnt.
 
#3
Oud Mostafa wins for sillage, in my opinion. I have not had enough experience with Crassna Cha to reciprocate Ensar's experience yet, but I'm sure he's right!

Oud Nuh also has good sillage, as does Cambodi Caramel.
 
#5
IMHO Oud Mostafa wins by double length easily. I had likened open the bottle to similar experience of turning the radio to a 72 piece Orchestra at the Height of a Crescendo at full volume. I remember the first time I put it on without realizing it's power, the horrified reaction of a German family of 4 as they stepped onto the elevator where I already in to go the German Consult. The poor little girl, took one breath and held it all the way up in the elevator...all 23 floors...
I think of Silage as "Chi" or energy embodied within the essential oil.
 
#6
A brilliant topic. The first proper bottle of oud i ever bought was Mostafa, and apart from the name and everything it conjured up in my mind about our beloved, the other reason i bought it was the mention of Ibn Mas’ud (Allah be well pleased with him) in the intro. About how people could tell he had been present in a certain place well after he had left due to the scent he used to wear. Thats the type of oud i'm looking for - to fulfil that sunnah. Is it possible to produce something like this without chemical additives and enhancers Ensar? Surely only natural ingredients would have been used in those days. Back to the topic in hand, without doubt Oud Mostafa wins the sillage test out of my collection, any visions for a Mostafa 2nd edition?
 

Rasoul S

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#8
for me walla oils are majorly powerful with biggest sillage. so diffisuive and chuck full of vaporous top notes but their base too is loiuder than many other. ORSL. ADH2. suri senkoh...

sultan oils are no chum either. suleyman, beyazit and ahmet are right up there.
 

Rasoul S

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#9
they both have very high projection. not sure which is higher. super different styles but both equally massive and loud from beginning to the end
 

Rasoul S

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#10
I have an answer for you a definitive one but you are not going to like it.

BOTH

You need both. Period. Game over. And this comes from not the biggest walla fan. In fact we even had a short lived no love, no wear, relationship. So yeah, you want to have both.
 

Rasoul S

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#11
To give you a bit more:

Orsl is ballsy. Deep. Big. Rich. Front to back. Very much carries its royal name with pride.

Suri senkoh
Is abstract art. Is ethereal. Finessed. That blue note zoomed in. The aquatic cinnamon on focus. It recalls a style one can loosely compare to tahas gen 3 oils.
 

Rasoul S

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#12
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