Musk Vulcain
Italian lemon hits first, but cardamom is right behind it — bright citrus immediately tempered by a green-resinous spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Italian Lemon
- Guatemalan Cardamom
- Indonesian Patchouli Leaf
- Nutmeg
- Madagascar Cloves
By the editors · 2 min readItalian lemon hits first, but cardamom is right behind it — bright citrus immediately tempered by a green-resinous spice. Apple adds a juicier facet without going sweet. The opening reads as a gourmand-aromatic hybrid rather than a straight cologne.
The heart turns warm and dry. Nutmeg and Madagascar cloves carry a smoky-spicy thread; Indonesian patchouli leaf grounds it in earth and damp wood. There's a recognizable trace of the 2010s spicy-masculine accord here — the same family as a dozen Mugler-adjacent woody-spice releases.
"Lava" and styrax in the base are the interesting move: a mineral, slightly sulfurous, balsamic warmth, with musk smoothing the edges. The whole thing wears closer than its spice content suggests — three to five hours, modest projection, pitched toward cool-weather casual wear.
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.




