Himalaya Mountains
Grapefruit opens bright and tangy, its citrus oils sparking immediately against skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Amber50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens bright and tangy, its citrus oils sparking immediately against skin. Sandalwood arrives within minutes, smoothing the citric edges into a dry blond wood that feels clean rather than creamy. Ambergris threads through the heart, lending a faint marine saltiness that keeps the wood airy instead of dense. Cedar and musk settle underneath, sharpening the base with pencil-shaving dryness while musk adds quiet skin-hugging warmth. The scent stays close, projecting no farther than arm’s length for six hours before fading to a soft wood-and-skin whisper. Bright daytime wear for spring through early fall, it works especially well in office air conditioning where the ambergris lift stays noticeable.
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.
