Civet
Tarragon and pepper open over a bright but short-lived citrus splash, the herb's anise-cool edge already hinting at the strangeness underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Tuberose60
- White Floral60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Black Pepper
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readTarragon and pepper open over a bright but short-lived citrus splash, the herb's anise-cool edge already hinting at the strangeness underneath.
The heart unfolds into a heady tuberose-and-ylang white floral, creamy and slightly carnal, with heliotrope adding an almond-powder softness. From here the civet asserts itself — fecal, sweaty, fur-warm — pulling the bouquet into bedroom rather than garden territory and joined by a smoky frankincense thread.
The drydown layers labdanum's resinous amber, vetiver's earth, and a dark coffee facet under steady musk, with vanilla rounding the animal warmth. The overall character is long-trailing and deliberately unsettling — a fur-coat fragrance that lingers on skin and clothing well into the next day.
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.
