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Grapefruit leads with a bitter-juicy snap sharpened by cardamom’s cool spice, while violet adds a dusty purple lift that keeps the citrus from turning candied.
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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.
- Citrus70
- Violet60
- Patchouli60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Violet
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Papyrus
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit leads with a bitter-juicy snap sharpened by cardamom’s cool spice, while violet adds a dusty purple lift that keeps the citrus from turning candied. The heart is skipped, so grapefruit’s pithy edge slides directly into a dry, resinous base where amber spreads a light caramel glaze and patchouli brings a chocolate-brown earthiness that darkens the fruit without overt sweetness. Papyrus contributes a crisp, paper-flat woodiness that keeps the amber-patchouli core airy rather than syrupy, extending wear into a skin-warm skin scent that still hints at violet’s mineral iris-like edge. Projection stays arm-length for roughly five hours, ideal for spring office days when you want citrus depth without aquatics.
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.
