Homeros
Civet and castoreum open with an animalic warmth that ambergris tempers with a saline, musky depth.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Civet
- Ambergris
- Cedar
- Bergamot
- Castoreum
- Saffron
- Black Currant
By the editors · 2 min readCivet and castoreum open with an animalic warmth that ambergris tempers with a saline, musky depth. Bergamot and cedar provide a sharp woody-citrus contrast that quickly yields to the heart. Saffron and rose introduce a spicy floral character, while osmanthus and mimosa add a fruity-powdery nuance. Sandalwood and patchouli form a dry, earthy base that tobacco enriches with a sweet, smoky leatheriness. The scent evolves dramatically over eight-plus hours, from animalic intensity to a complex balsamic-woody dry-down. Projection is strong initially, settling to moderate sillage suited for cool weather evening or formal 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.
