Forbidden Flower
Grapefruit opens bright, pithy and slightly bitter, a flash of citrus that quickly folds into sandalwood’s creamy, blond wood.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Woody80
- Soft Spicy50
- Green50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Sandalwood
- Ginger
- Vetiver
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens bright, pithy and slightly bitter, a flash of citrus that quickly folds into sandalwood’s creamy, blond wood. The heart keeps that wood centre-stage while ginger adds a warm, effervescent snap that lifts the creamy grain. Vetiver threads dry grass through the base, its smoke tethering the sweet benzoin-vanilla tandem and keeping the accord from turning dessert-like. Patchouli and cedar arrive late, supplying earthy depth and splintered dryness that extend the sandalwood’s lifespan well past the citrus echo. Projection stays polite, radiating an arm-length woody haze for six hours before settling into a soft, gingery skin scent. Cool spring evenings and early fall days suit its restrained brightness best.
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.
