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Masakï Matsushïma · Est. 2005

Mat Chocolat

Mat-Chocolat opens with an unexpected sharpness—tart blackcurrant and grapefruit cut through what you'd expect from the name, keeping the composition from sliding into dessert territory.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2005
Perfumerunknown
Statusenriched
2005 · Fragrance
san·mus·cin·ros
Rating
3.6
1.0k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 6 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.

  • Sandalwood
    70
  • Musk
    50
  • Cinnamon
    40
  • Rose
    30
  • Amber
    20

By the editors · 2 min readMat-Chocolat opens with an unexpected sharpness—tart blackcurrant and grapefruit cut through what you'd expect from the name, keeping the composition from sliding into dessert territory. The rose in the opening feels more like a tinted veil than a bloom, softening the citrus without announcing itself loudly.

As it settles, the chocolate emerges not as ganache but as something drier, almost powdery, woven into sandalwood and a whisper of coconut that reads more tropical wood than sunscreen. The effect is warmer than gourmand, closer to a cocoa-dusted skin scent than anything overtly edible.

This is chocolate approached obliquely, for someone who wants the suggestion rather than the full statement. It wears close, never loud, with enough musk in the base to keep it from feeling juvenile despite the playful name.

Filed: Masakï MatsushïmaSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap