Note

Silk

Clean silk has little inherent scent, so the perfume note usually suggests smooth, softly powdery musk. This abstract accord adds a gentle heart or base around flowers and pale woods.

In 3 perfumes.

Found in Ichigo Ichie, Acqua Colonia Orris & Silk and Silk Of Paris

Most popular with silk

The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.

Often paired with

Notes that show up next to silk more often than chance would predict.

Too few perfumes to say.

How it reads

Musky and powdery above all. Reaches for cacao, nutty and gourmand far more often than the catalogue as a whole, and rarely for sweet.

  • musky
  • powdery
  • fruity
  • woody
  • gourmand
  • cacao
  • citrus
  • nutty