Sacred Scarab
Sacred Scarab opens with civet and lemon — an incongruous pairing that immediately makes the intention clear.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Smoky90
- Amber80
- Balsamic70
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Civet
- Lemon
- Plum
- Oakmoss
- Incense
- Myrrh
By the editors · 2 min readSacred Scarab opens with civet and lemon — an incongruous pairing that immediately makes the intention clear. The civet is animalic but not indecent, lending a warm, slightly waxy quality that the lemon cuts with green acidity. It smells like something preserved, like resin baked in heat.
Plum in the heart is a single note doing large structural work: it bridges the animalic opening to the resin-heavy base by providing a dark, jammy sweetness that reads as both fruit and shadow. It's an undertone more than a leading presence.
The base is the main event: oakmoss, incense, myrrh, labdanum, benzoin, and styrax together compose something genuinely old, like an unventilated temple. Sacred Scarab is for those who want their perfume to smell like a ritual object — ancient, dense, and entirely unconcerned with accessibility.
Scent twins
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