Musk Aswad
Vanilla opens thick and custard-like, immediately sweet but without sugary edges.
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.
- Honey50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Vanilla
- Vetiver
- Honey
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readVanilla opens thick and custard-like, immediately sweet but without sugary edges. Vetiver threads a cool, rooty bitterness through the heart, while honey liquefies the vanilla into a slow-moving golden syrup that clings to skin. Amber arrives early, doubling the resinous depth so that the composition feels half-liquid, half-glow. Musk settles underneath, not laundry-clean but faintly skin-salty, keeping the base from turning pastry. Over hours the vetiver recedes, letting honey dominate while vanilla softens into a dusty pod texture that radiates close-to-skin warmth. Projection stays intimate, a one-foot aura that lasts through a workday yet never shouts, thriving in cool weather and quiet spaces where subtle sweetness reads as grooming rather than dessert.
Scent twins
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