Cafe Intenso
Apple, orange, and grapefruit open bright and fruity-citrus, the apple lending a crisp sweetness while the grapefruit adds a slight bitter snap.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Chocolate60
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Lily
- Lily of the Valley
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readApple, orange, and grapefruit open bright and fruity-citrus, the apple lending a crisp sweetness while the grapefruit adds a slight bitter snap. The opening reads fresh and breakfast-cheerful.
Lily and lily-of-the-valley build a soft white-floral heart that bridges the bright top to the warm base. The bouquet stays watery and clean rather than indolic, never pulling focus from the coffee that's about to take over.
Coffee dominates the drydown, dark and bitter, balanced by sandalwood and a quiet vanilla cushion. The combination reads as a fruity-floral with a coffee gourmand finish — an unusual pairing of bright top and dark base, projecting moderately and lasting well into the day. Best suited for cool weather and casual evening contexts.
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.
