Bat
Bat opens in near-darkness—damp earth and bruised fruit, the sticky sweetness of overripe figs mingling with something feral.
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.
- Tropical50
- Amber50
- Fruity50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Myrrh
- Fig
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBat opens in near-darkness—damp earth and bruised fruit, the sticky sweetness of overripe figs mingling with something feral. It's the scent of a cave at twilight, where sweetness and decay exist side by side. Myrrh lends an ancient, resinous quality that keeps the composition from tipping into simple gourmand territory.
As it settles, leather and vetiver emerge, grounding the fruit in something more animalic and shadowed. The tonka bean adds a creamy warmth that softens the edges without domesticating them entirely. Sandalwood provides a quiet structure beneath it all.
This is Zoologist's signature approach—nature observed closely, rendered without sentiment. Bat suits those drawn to fragrances that occupy liminal spaces, neither fully dark nor sweet, comfortable with ambiguity. It wears close and evolves slowly, more nocturnal meditation than statement.
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.
