Lux
Petitgrain opens with a bitter-green flash, its woody-citrus edge sharpening the sweeter grapefruit and bergamot into a cool, morning-air accord.
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.
- Musky80
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Black Currant
- Rose
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain opens with a bitter-green flash, its woody-citrus edge sharpening the sweeter grapefruit and bergamot into a cool, morning-air accord. The heart introduces black currant’s tart-jam facet, which dyes the rose in deep magenta rather than soft pink, keeping the floral layer juicy instead of powdery. As the fruits recede, clean white musk flattens the composition into a skin-close linen sheet, erasing most of the earlier sparkle within three hours. What remains is a faint, laundry-fresh musk with a ghost of tangled rose stems, polite enough for open-office summer days yet too restrained to leave a trail beyond handshake distance. Projection stays intimate; best worn to casual daytime errands in warm weather when you want to smell showered rather than perfumed.
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.
