Musk
Etro's Musk opens with a brief citrus lift—grapefruit and bergamot that clear the air without lingering.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Woody90
- Musky70
- Aromatic50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Sandalwood
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readEtro's Musk opens with a brief citrus lift—grapefruit and bergamot that clear the air without lingering. Within minutes, the wood accord takes over: sandalwood dominates, softened by guaiac's subtle smokiness and cedar's pencil-shaving dryness. Lily of the valley adds a clean, almost soapy floral thread that keeps the composition from feeling too heavy or overtly masculine.
The musk itself is gentle and skin-close, never animalic or sharp. It wraps around the woods rather than competing with them, creating a polished, understated warmth. This is musk as a supporting player, not the star—more about elegant restraint than bold projection.
A daytime fragrance that suits anyone drawn to woody simplicity with a faint floral accent. It wears close, fades gracefully, and doesn't demand attention. The kind of scent that feels effortless on people who prefer their fragrance barely noticed.
Scent twins
In this family
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.




