Library Visit
Leather opens Library Visit with a raw, near-barnyard edge that civet amplifies into something almost greasy, while dry tobacco leaf keeps the accord dark and papery rather than sweet.
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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
- Tobacco80
- Smoky70
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Civet
- Tobacco
- Frankincense
- Labdanum
- Saffron
By the editors · 2 min readLeather opens Library Visit with a raw, near-barnyard edge that civet amplifies into something almost greasy, while dry tobacco leaf keeps the accord dark and papery rather than sweet. Frankincense rises quickly, its lemon-peel resin cooling the hide and drawing labdanum’s molten amber up through the tobacco ribs; saffron threads a faint iodine snap across the middle, sharpening smoke without adding heat. As skin warms, white musk sheens the leather, sanding the civet funk to a suede-like nap, and benzoin pours a quiet vanilla-bean liquor that lets oakmoss bite gently at the edges. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, then collapses to a soft, prayer-book musk that still carries a ghost of cured leaf; the wear feels scholarly, cool, and faintly animalic, perfect for fall libraries or winter evenings when wool and paper dominate the air.
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.