Musk 12
Musk-12 opens with a burst of clean freesia that feels almost soapy-fresh, like petals pressed between crisp linen.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Musky65
- White Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Freesia
- Jasmine
- Musk
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readMusk-12 opens with a burst of clean freesia that feels almost soapy-fresh, like petals pressed between crisp linen. The impression is immediate and uncluttered, a transparent brightness that doesn't linger long before the fragrance settles into its true character.
The heart brings soft white florals—jasmine blooms without indolic heaviness, wrapped in musk that feels more skin-like than animalic. This is where the perfume finds its balance: neither purely floral nor entirely musky, but somewhere comfortably between. The florals never shout.
Sandalwood and vanilla provide warmth in the base without tipping into gourmand territory. The vanilla stays subtle, more cream than frosting, while sandalwood adds gentle woody structure. It wears close to the skin and fades politely, suited to anyone seeking an easy, approachable musk fragrance that leans feminine without being saccharine. The kind of scent that smells simply like clean skin, only better.
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.
