Musc Nomade
Musc Nomade opens with a dry, almost austere papyrus note that feels like unfinished wood and dried grasses rather than conventional perfume.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Musky70
- Sweet65
- Amber60
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Papyrus
- Ambrette
- Tonka Bean
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readMusc Nomade opens with a dry, almost austere papyrus note that feels like unfinished wood and dried grasses rather than conventional perfume. This restraint sets the tone for what follows: a composition built on whispers rather than declarations. The ambrette seed at its heart provides the musc of the title, a skin-close vegetal musk that's subtly sweet and faintly metallic, never the soapy cleanness associated with white musks.
As it settles, tonka bean and labdanum create a cocoon of warmth without turning gourmand or overtly resinous. The patchouli registers as earth and shadow rather than hippie shop intensity. The whole effect hovers close to skin, radiating gentle warmth like sunbaked fabric.
This is nomadic in spirit—unadorned, portable, adaptable. It suits those who want fragrance as second skin rather than statement, and who appreciate restraint as much as richness. A quiet fragrance that requires proximity and patience.
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.
