Beaver Edition 2016
Beaver Edition 2016 takes a counterintuitive approach to its subject: rather than leaning into castoreum's animalic character, Chris Bartlett opens the composition with the beaver's environment — ozonic, green, the cool breath off river water.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Ozonic55
- Musk55
- Marine50
- Leather45
- Amber35
By the editors · 2 min readBeaver Edition 2016 takes a counterintuitive approach to its subject: rather than leaning into castoreum's animalic character, Chris Bartlett opens the composition with the beaver's environment — ozonic, green, the cool breath off river water. Linden blossom adds a delicate honeyed-green note, and the whole top reads as riverbank rather than animal.
The heart is aquatic and musked — watery notes and musk that sustain the naturalistic atmosphere established at the top. The castoreum arrives in the base as a supporting character rather than the lead: leather and amber frame it, vanilla softens it, and the result is more complex than simply animalic. Something between cool damp stone and warm animal breath.
Zoologist's conceit — fragrance as natural history — is executed here with considerable nuance. This is an unusual fragrance: not challenging in the way true animalics can be, but genuinely strange in its preoccupations. The ozonic top and leathery-warm base are distinct enough phases to reward attention.
