Dark Vinyl Musk
Dark Vinyl Musk opens with labdanum and rose in close proximity — the resin immediately muffling any softness the rose might offer, pushing the composition toward dry, almost medicinal warmth from the first moments.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Leather90
- Smoky70
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Labdanum
- Rose
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Styrax
By the editors · 2 min readDark Vinyl Musk opens with labdanum and rose in close proximity — the resin immediately muffling any softness the rose might offer, pushing the composition toward dry, almost medicinal warmth from the first moments.
In the heart, frankincense and styrax pull the fragrance toward a smoky, balsamic register. The olibanum adds a church-like dryness while styrax brings a rubbery, tarry undertow that earns the "vinyl" reference in the name.
The base is dense — leather over amber and labdanum, with musk staying low and skin-close. This is a deliberately dark, resinous construction with little relief from fresher elements. The sandalwood is buried but keeps the leather from feeling entirely cold.
Scent twins
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