Apres Cologne
Lime and blood orange open bright and juicy, their tart edges sharpened by lemon's pithy bitterness while bergamot contributes a faint peppery sparkle.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Citrus80
- Fresh60
- Aromatic40
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Blood Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Petitgrain
- Orris
- Neroli
By the editors · 2 min readLime and blood orange open bright and juicy, their tart edges sharpened by lemon's pithy bitterness while bergamot contributes a faint peppery sparkle. Petitgrain enters early, adding a green-leaf facet that keeps the citrus from turning candied, and orris threads a cool, carrot-like powder through the heart, softening neroli's honeyed orange-blossom glow. The composition slides quietly into skin: labdanum supplies a resinous amber that lengthens the citrus without sweetness, and clean white musk shepherds the accord into a close, linen-washed dry-down that still carries lime zest several hours later. Projection stays within conversational distance, making it office-friendly yet refreshing after exercise. Best worn spring through early fall on days when you want the crispness of a classic cologne but with quieter persistence and a matte, woody-iris finish.
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.
