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 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.
- Marine60
- Smoky55
- Aromatic50
- Salty
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Pink Pepper
- Opoponax
- Sea Salt
- Ambergris
- Benzoin
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.
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.
