Muscs Koublaï Khän
Muscs Koublai Khan is among the most discussed and deliberately transgressive muscs in perfumery — a composition that takes the concept of skin scent to its logical extreme.
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.
- Musky80
- Amber55
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Civet
- Ambergris
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Bergamot
- Castoreum
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readMuscs Koublai Khan is among the most discussed and deliberately transgressive muscs in perfumery — a composition that takes the concept of skin scent to its logical extreme. Civet, castoreum, and ambergris combine in an animalic accord that smells, depending on skin chemistry, like warm skin after exertion or something considerably more provocative. Bergamot provides a thin citrus transparency; patchouli and vanilla add sweetness and earth that prevent the composition from becoming purely challenging. On the right skin it is intimate and addictive; on others, confrontational. Serge Lutens making a conviction rather than a fragrance.
Scent twins
In this family
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