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
- Neroli
- Juniper Berries
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Incense
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readMolinard's Musc is not the soft, skin-close musk of flankers and fabric-softener references but something more architectural. Bergamot and nutmeg create a dry, subtly spiced opening; juniper berries add a cool, almost gin-like resinous sharpness that keeps the citrus from reading as simply fresh. The heart is where the character crystallizes: incense and teak wood form a dry, woody-smoky accord, with patchouli providing depth and earthy weight.
The base settles into amber and labdanum — the resinous, balsamic register native to Grasse — with musk amplifying diffusion rather than dominating character. Understated for an EDP, this is a musk that announces itself through texture and warmth rather than projection. It wears close but leaves a clear impression on warm skin.
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.
