Instinct
Instinct opens on a clean aquatic apple accord — watery and transparent, with the apple reading more marine than fruity.
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.
- Marine80
- Fresh60
- Aquatic60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Cedar
- Violet
- Tonka Bean
- Musk
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readInstinct opens on a clean aquatic apple accord — watery and transparent, with the apple reading more marine than fruity. Lemon and mandarin in the general list reinforce the clean, washed quality of the opening without adding true citrus sharpness.
Cedar and violet in the heart give the composition a light woody-powdery structure. The violet reads quietly here, adding a faint soft-floral note rather than dominating. Tonka bean and musk in the base provide smooth warmth, while the marine character established in the top persists throughout. The overall profile is clean and aquatic — a fresh masculine built around transparent clarity. Best in warm weather or active contexts; projection stays moderate.
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.
