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Grapefruit opens with a bright, tart citrus note before freesia takes the heart with its light, slightly green-floral character.
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.
- Citrus60
- Fresh50
- Sweet50
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Freesia
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with a bright, tart citrus note before freesia takes the heart with its light, slightly green-floral character. Vetiver in the base introduces an earthy, dry smokiness that contrasts with the sweetness of vanilla, pulling the drydown in two directions simultaneously. The combination of freesia's delicacy and vetiver's roughness creates a quiet tension.
The vanilla smooths the vetiver's rough edges without eliminating them, settling into a mildly sweet earthy skin scent. This is a spare fragrance — just four notes producing a clean, somewhat unconventional structure. The grapefruit-vetiver pairing in particular gives it an edge. Projection is modest and longevity moderate, making it better suited to close encounters.
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.
