Vacation
Vacation arrived as a collaboration between Arquiste and the Vacation sunscreen brand, and the brief was taken literally: this smells like a swimming pool.
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.
- Musk55
- Bergamot50
- Ozonic50
- Peach40
- Marine35
By the editors · 2 min readVacation arrived as a collaboration between Arquiste and the Vacation sunscreen brand, and the brief was taken literally: this smells like a swimming pool. Petitgrain and coconut water open crisply before the heart turns full tropical — bergamot, pineapple, and banana layered into a synthetic-sun accord that's deliberately artificial, like SPF 30 baking in afternoon heat. The sea salt base anchors it in something real: a moment at the edge of a pool, body warm, skin salted. Whether that registers as appealing or unpleasant depends entirely on your relationship to nostalgia and sunscreen.