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Grapefruit snaps open with a bitter-green flash as galbanum cuts the citrus oil with crushed-leaf tannin, keeping the top bright rather than juicy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Clove
- Thyme
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit snaps open with a bitter-green flash as galbanum cuts the citrus oil with crushed-leaf tannin, keeping the top bright rather than juicy. Cardamom seeds soon warm the edges, steering the top toward a dry, aromatic spice track that the heart widens with clove and thyme; their eugenol and herbaceous camphor fuse into a clean, almost medicinal aura around a quiet rose-jasmine duet. Sandalwood and Virginia cedar arrive early, smoothing the spices into a blond wood panel polished by cinnamon heat, while incense streams a cool, transparent smoke that blurs the amber-patchouli sweetness underneath. Vanilla remains restrained, letting musk do the lingering, so the final skin scent is soft woods flecked with ash and baking spice.
Scent twins
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