Shades Blue
Lemon, grapefruit, cardamom, and bergamot open with a citrus-spice combination that is bright, energetic, and well-structured.
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.
- Aromatic80
- Fresh Spicy70
- Herbal60
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Mint
- Sage
By the editors · 2 min readLemon, grapefruit, cardamom, and bergamot open with a citrus-spice combination that is bright, energetic, and well-structured. The cardamom adds mild exotic spice over the citrus base.
Ginger, mint, sage, rosemary, and nutmeg form a densely herbal heart — the sage and rosemary in particular give this a Mediterranean aromatic quality. General notes add pineapple, clary sage, and jasmine, broadening the heart slightly.
Sandalwood, vetiver, cedar, and patchouli anchor the base with dry, earthy woody depth. Note prior scores aromatic and lavender highest, with fresh-spicy also prominent. The overall character is a citrus-herbal aromatic with woody earthiness — a classic masculine fragrance suited to daytime wear.
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.
