Beau Acute
Beau Acute opens classic — a four-citrus stack of petitgrain, orange, lemon, and bergamot that reads like a textbook fougère opening.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Lavender65
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Petitgrain
- Orange
- Orange
- Lemon
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readBeau Acute opens classic — a four-citrus stack of petitgrain, orange, lemon, and bergamot that reads like a textbook fougère opening. It's bright and short-lived, fading inside fifteen minutes.
The heart steps into the herbal canon: lavender at center with rosemary, sage, and clary sage layered around it, plus a thin floral sweetness from jasmine and rose to keep it from going purely barbershop. The lavender is dominant but not soapy.
The base lands woody and clean — sandalwood under cedar with vetiver and white musk. The drydown is a familiar shape, the kind of scent that reads polite and traditional rather than ambitious. Solid spring and summer wear for office or casual settings where a fresh aromatic does the right amount of work without drawing attention.
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.




