Squid
Squid opens with a declaration: incense and pink pepper arriving together in a combination that smells both warm and sharp, like resin heated near the coast.
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.
- Marine60
- Incense55
- Amber50
- Musk40
- Ozonic35
By the editors · 2 min readSquid opens with a declaration: incense and pink pepper arriving together in a combination that smells both warm and sharp, like resin heated near the coast. It's a provocative opening for a fragrance inspired by cephalopods, but it works — the spiced resin creates an atmospheric stage. Opoponax and sea salt at the heart are where the concept coalesces: opoponax's sweet-balsamic warmth against marine salt suggests depth and pressure, something dark below the surface.
The base is the strongest section: ambergris brings a salt-warm dryness that reads as genuinely oceanic without going aquatic-fresh, benzoin adds a honeyed sweetness that tempers the marine character, and musk ties it to skin. Squid is the kind of niche fragrance that justifies the category — genuinely strange, carefully made, not intended for everyone, and better for it.