Squid
Squid opens on unexpected ground: frankincense and incense alongside pink pepper — warm, resinous, and lightly spiced.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Incense55
- Amber40
- Musk35
- Marine30
- Black Pepper20
By the editors · 2 min readSquid opens on unexpected ground: frankincense and incense alongside pink pepper — warm, resinous, and lightly spiced. Nothing in the opening signals the marine; this is more contemplative than oceanic, establishing that Zoologist's interpretation will be conceptually oblique rather than literal.
The heart introduces the concept: a black ink accord — inky, mineral, slightly metallic — alongside salty notes and opoponax's warm-resinous sweetness. The combination reads as genuinely alien: a dark, wet minerality rather than the clean ozone of conventional aquatics. It's one of the more distinctive heart accords in the Zoologist catalog.
Ambergris and benzoin in the base provide waxy, marine-animalic depth; benzoin's sweetness softens the stranger edges. Perfumer Céline Barel has constructed something precise and strange in equal measure — wearable, but unmistakably itself.