Hyrax
Saffron and pink pepper open with a metallic, slightly fermented edge — there is warmth here, but also something raw and animal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Animalic95
- Balsamic75
- Amber65
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Styrax
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Civet
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and pink pepper open with a metallic, slightly fermented edge — there is warmth here, but also something raw and animal. The spice doesn't register as culinary; it reads more like skin working hard in a warm room.
Styrax moves into the heart and pulls the composition toward a resinous, slightly rubbery character that bridges the spice above and the dense base below. Civet and castoreum then assert themselves clearly — this is intentionally animalic, leaning into barnyard territory rather than away from it.
Tonka bean and benzoin soften the base without cleaning it up. Sandalwood and patchouli add body. The overall impression is of something worn, intimate, and deliberately confrontational — a balsamic animalic with staying power.
Scent twins
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