Grand Musk
Lavender and cardamom open brisk and aromatic, the spice crackling against cool herbal green while Bulgarian rose adds a faintly sweet floral lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Musky80
- Fresh Spicy70
- Aromatic60
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bulgarian Rose
- Cardamom
- White Musk
- Cinnamon
- Magnolia
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readLavender and cardamom open brisk and aromatic, the spice crackling against cool herbal green while Bulgarian rose adds a faintly sweet floral lift. The heart swells with white musk wrapped in baking-spice paneling: cinnamon, nutmeg and clove weave through ylang-ylang’s creamy banana facet and magnolia’s soft lemonon, all cushioned by a modest vanilla ribbon that keeps the spices from turning dry. Leather emerges early in the base, merging with frankincense smoke and a dry cedar-patchouli axis to give the musk a worn-jacket texture, while amber supplies a muted golden glow rather than overt sweetness. Over hours the spices recede, letting the clean white musk dominate, yet the leather-incense tandem lingers as a skin-close fuzz. Projection sits at arm’s length for most of the wear, making it office-friendly yet quietly sensual through the lingering musk-leather accord.
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.
