Civet de Nuit
Heliotrope introduces a powdery almond-like sweetness that feels both comforting and slightly dense.
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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.
- Animalic90
- Mossy70
- Balsamic60
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Heliotrope
- Civet
- Ylang-Ylang
- Oakmoss
- Mysore Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readHeliotrope introduces a powdery almond-like sweetness that feels both comforting and slightly dense. Civet immediately adds a complex animalic warmth, creating a bold contrast with the floral ylang-ylang's creamy richness. Oakmoss and sandalwood provide an earthy green woody foundation that supports the intense heart notes. Ambergris, labdanum, and benzoin contribute a resinous balsamic depth, while castoreum and musk enhance the animalic character. This composition evolves significantly, starting powdery and animalic then deepening into a resinous mossy dry-down. It projects strongly for over twelve hours, fitting fall and winter evenings or formal events in cool conditions.
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.
