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Zoologist Perfumes · Est. 2016

Civet

Civet opens with the raw, almost feral punch of animalic musk—unapologetic and startling in its intensity.

ConcentrationEau de Parfum
Forunisex
Released2016
Statusenriched
2016 · Eau de Parfum
mus·pat·inc·san
Rating
4.0
1.3k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
citrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

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.

  • Musk
    85
  • Patchouli
    40
  • Incense
    35
  • Sandalwood
    15
  • Vanilla
    10

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.

Filed: Zoologist PerfumesSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap