Wild Musk
Wild Musk opens with a sharp burst of aldehydes that quickly gives way to something soft and soapy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Musky75
- White Floral50
- Sweet50
- Animalic
By the editors · 2 min readWild Musk opens with a sharp burst of aldehydes that quickly gives way to something soft and soapy. The musk at its heart is clean rather than animalic, reminiscent of drugstore powder and freshly laundered cotton. There's a hint of floral sweetness beneath—likely a whisper of rose or jasmine—but it never dominates the composition.
As it develops, the fragrance settles into a skin-like transparency, the kind of scent that feels more like a memory than a statement. It belongs to an era when musk meant accessibility rather than exoticism, a time when fragrance was as much about daily ritual as special occasion. The drydown is talc and warmth, familiar and unassuming.
This is musk stripped of pretension—simple, wearable, and deliberately unpretentious. It won't turn heads in a room, but it lingers on skin with quiet persistence, a trace of something clean and comforting.
Scent twins
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