Esprit Libre
Petitgrain opens brisk and leafy, its bitter-green edge sharpened by thyme and clary sage while lavender softens the bite with a cool, camphoraceous thread.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Sage
- Lavender
- Thyme
- Patchouli
- Grapefruit
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain opens brisk and leafy, its bitter-green edge sharpened by thyme and clary sage while lavender softens the bite with a cool, camphoraceous thread. A tart grapefruit heart slices through the herbs, brightening the camphor-lavender axis and preventing the patchouli from turning earthy; instead the patchouli reads as clean, dry brushwood. As the citrus fades, the same petitgrain resurfaces in the base, now paired with galbanum’s resinous snap and the faint almond sweetness of tonka, creating a cool, moss-tinted finish that smells like crushed leaves on stone. Projection stays polite, a forearm’s-length aura that lasts office hours yet never shouts, making it an easy warm-weather signature for days when you want green without sugar.
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.