Smoky Citrus
Petitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green flash that instantly pulls the bergamot away from simple citrus brightness and into a stem-shred, almost gin-like bite.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Green50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Eucalyptus
- Oakmoss
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green flash that instantly pulls the bergamot away from simple citrus brightness and into a stem-shred, almost gin-like bite. Lavender arrives early, cool and camphor-edged, while eucalyptus injects a medicinal chill that keeps the heart airy rather than floral; together they form a brisk aromatic layer that sits on top of the moss rather than sinking into it. Oakmoss then reclaims center stage, earthy and slightly salty, its damp bark accord wrapping around patchouli’s dark cocoa dust to create a forest-floor cushion that mutes the earlier aromatics. Leather enters late as a dry, suede-smoke rasp, stitching the moss and patchouli into a muted, softly smoky skin scent that stays close but persistent.
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.