Civet
Civet opens with the raw, almost feral punch of animalic musk—unapologetic and startling in its intensity.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Musk85
- Patchouli40
- Incense35
- Sandalwood15
- Vanilla10
By the editors · 2 min readCivet opens with the raw, almost feral punch of animalic musk—unapologetic and startling in its intensity. There's a musky sweetness underneath, dark and skin-close, that suggests both intimacy and provocation. As it settles, patchouli and incense emerge to ground the composition, lending structure to what might otherwise feel deliberately untamed.
This is a perfume that confronts rather than seduces, evoking the pre-synthetic era when perfumery borrowed directly from animal glands and rabbit-fur tinctures. Not office-appropriate, not meant to blend into background noise. It suits those curious about perfume's stranger history or anyone seeking something genuinely polarizing—a scent that remembers when beauty wasn't always clean.
