Lacrima
Castoreum opens raw and leathery, immediately joined by a bright pink-pepper snap that keeps the animalic accord from turning heavy.
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.
- Animalic90
- Mossy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Castoreum
- Moss
- Labdanum
- Benzoin
- Castoreum
- Benzoin
- Pink Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readCastoreum opens raw and leathery, immediately joined by a bright pink-pepper snap that keeps the animalic accord from turning heavy. The heart is missing from the pyramid, so the scent moves straight to a base where moss, labdanum and benzoin build a cool, resinous forest floor that slowly sweetens the musky castoreum fur. Over hours the composition softens into a smoky, slightly salty skin-trace that smells like old leather gloves dried over woodsmoke. Projection stays within arm’s length, lingering longest on fabric and projecting a quiet, contemplative mood rather than a room-filling statement. Cool, damp weather and low-light settings let the mossy-amber depth breathe without overheating the musky castoreum core.
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.
