Black Musk
Tonka bean opens with a soft, almond-like sweetness that immediately merges with patchouli's earthy dryness, creating a bittersweet cocoa impression.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Myrrh
- Civet
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readTonka bean opens with a soft, almond-like sweetness that immediately merges with patchouli's earthy dryness, creating a bittersweet cocoa impression. The heart introduces sandalwood's creamy wood and myrrh's incense resin, which together amplify the tonka's vanillic facet while adding a contemplative smoke. Civet arrives in the base as a warm, leathery musk that pushes the composition darker, its animalic purr wrapping around vanilla to create a deep, almost tarry amber accord. As it settles, the musk dominates: a dirty, skin-close scent that keeps the sweetness in check and projects a lived-in intimacy. Sillage stays close but persistent, creating a private aura rather than announcing itself across rooms. Best suited for cool evenings when its musky, resinous weight can breathe without becoming cloying; the composition feels deliberately monochrome, shifting mainly in texture rather than color.
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.
