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 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.
- Musky85
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Balsamic
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.
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.
