Musc Intense
Pear opens with a cool, buttery-sweet quality, galbanum adding a bitter-green counterpoint that keeps the fruit from becoming ripe.
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.
- Musk70
- Sandalwood40
- Jasmine40
- Rose40
- Amber40
By the editors · 2 min readPear opens with a cool, buttery-sweet quality, galbanum adding a bitter-green counterpoint that keeps the fruit from becoming ripe. The heart is an accessible floral triptych — jasmine providing warmth, rose offering the central floral note, violet contributing powdery depth. Together they form a clean, legible feminine accord without complication. The base is the composition's purpose: sandalwood rounds the structure into creamy warmth; civet adds the animalic edge that gives the fragrance its character — intimate, slightly skin-warm; amber deepens; musk extends with quiet persistence. This is a classically constructed musky floral from a house that has been making exactly this type of fragrance for decades. Well-balanced, knowingly wearable.
