Lemon No. 1999
Lemon, neroli, and mint open with a cool, citrus-bright freshness — the mint keeping things crisp while neroli adds a faintly floral, waxy lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Violet70
- Powdery60
- Aromatic50
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Neroli
- Lemon
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readLemon, neroli, and mint open with a cool, citrus-bright freshness — the mint keeping things crisp while neroli adds a faintly floral, waxy lift. The transition to the heart is relatively quick, where violet and jasmine soften the sharpness into something powdery and quietly green.
Vetiver and patchouli provide an earthy, slightly smoky base that gives the composition more grounding than its opening suggests. Musk adds a skin-close warmth at the finish. The overall effect moves from clean-citrus to earthy-powdery — unassuming and wearable, with violet doing most of the expressive work in the middle. Works well in cooler weather when lightness with some depth is useful.
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.
