African Musk
African Musk centers on hazelnut, violet, and white musk — a small but clearly intentioned pyramid.
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.
- Nutty80
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Hazelnut
- Violet
- White Musk
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readAfrican Musk centers on hazelnut, violet, and white musk — a small but clearly intentioned pyramid. The hazelnut reads warm, slightly toasted, and nutty rather than sugary, while the violet introduces a cool powdery note that contrasts its richness.
White musk and vanilla in the base are gentle and skin-close, providing sweetness without density. The composition is transparent and minimally layered — designed to sit close to the skin rather than project.
The interplay between the hazelnut's warmth and the violet's cool powder is the composition's main interest. For its simplicity, it functions as a comfortable, quiet skin scent — unpretentious and pleasant, suited to everyday close-contact wear.
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.