Beaver
A musk-led opening sets an animal-warm tone from the first minute, more skin-sweat than clean laundry, with the musk acting as both top and continuous thread.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Oud60
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Musk
- Iris
- Castoreum
- Amber
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA musk-led opening sets an animal-warm tone from the first minute, more skin-sweat than clean laundry, with the musk acting as both top and continuous thread.
The heart is where the composition reveals its character: iris's cool, slightly metallic rooty quality braided with castoreum's leathery, urinous animalic depth, the pairing reading as both refined and feral. The iris cuts the castoreum just enough to keep it from going purely barnyard.
The drydown is amber, cedar, and more musk, the amber adding a balsamic warmth and the cedar a dry pencil-shaving woodiness. The overall reading is a smoky animalic-leather with an iris-suede core, dense and warm with a long furred trail.
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.
