White Musk
White Musk opens with a soft floral brightness from ylang-ylang, its creamy petals lending just enough sweetness to keep the composition from turning austere.
The scent fingerprint
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.
- Musky85
- Yellow Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Ylang-Ylang
- Musk
- White Musk
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readWhite Musk opens with a soft floral brightness from ylang-ylang, its creamy petals lending just enough sweetness to keep the composition from turning austere. The flower never dominates—it simply provides a gentle entry point before dissolving into the central theme.
The musk itself is pillowy and enveloping, the kind of clean skin scent that sits close and remains remarkably linear throughout its wear. There's no animalic edge here, no vintage depth. Instead, Montale delivers a polished, almost powdery whiteness that feels deliberately modern and uncomplicated.
This is musk for those who want presence without projection, intimacy without secrets. It works equally well as a personal comfort scent or a discreet office fragrance, maintaining its quiet character for hours without ever announcing itself across a room.
Scent twins
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