Stercus
Stercus opens with a jolt—bitter almond and anise collide in a way that feels almost medicinal, sharp and vaguely unsettling.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Almond50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Anise
- Rose
- Leather
- Vanilla
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readStercus opens with a jolt—bitter almond and anise collide in a way that feels almost medicinal, sharp and vaguely unsettling. There's a sweetness underneath, but it's shadowed, as if something darker is already stirring. The name, Latin for excrement, isn't merely provocation; it signals a fragrance interested in the full spectrum of scent, including what polite perfumery ignores.
As it settles, rose emerges wrapped in leather and amber, turning warm and skin-close. Heliotrope and vanilla soften the edges without sanitizing them, while cedar and agarwood add a dry, almost dusty backdrop. Musk anchors everything in a way that feels lived-in, animalic without being aggressive.
This is a fragrance for those curious about scent's stranger territories—earthy, intimate, and unapologetically physical. It doesn't seek to charm. It asks whether beauty requires distance from the body, or if closeness is its own kind of truth.
Scent twins
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