Beaver
Musk opens thick and oily, immediately announcing castoreum’s sour-animalic hiss that clings to skin like wet fur.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Animalic90
- Leather80
- Musky70
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Musk
- Vanilla
- Smoke
- Iris
- Castoreum
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readMusk opens thick and oily, immediately announcing castoreum’s sour-animalic hiss that clings to skin like wet fur. Within minutes iris arrives, its cool powder sheen stretching across the musk to create a strange clean-dirty tension, while vanilla’s round sweetness keeps the accord from collapsing into full barnyard. The heart keeps rotating these three players: smoke curls in, sharpening the castoreum’s leather edge, then cedar splinters give the musk a sawdust frame so the composition feels both wooded and intimate. Dry-down folds everything into a dark leather-amber panel backed by lingering musk; the vanilla is now only a shadow, enough to soften the hide but never to sweeten it. Projection stays within arm’s length for seven hours, perfect for cool evenings when you want a quiet but unmistakable animalic signature.
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.




