Orange
Orange opens cleanly: sage's herbal bitterness and lime's tart brightness form a compact aromatic-citrus opening.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Lime
- Jasmine
- Saffron
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readOrange opens cleanly: sage's herbal bitterness and lime's tart brightness form a compact aromatic-citrus opening. The sage here reads dry and slightly camphorous rather than culinary, lending the composition a mildly herbal masculinity.
Sandalwood, vetiver, amber, and musk build a warm, dry woody base. Sandalwood contributes smoothness, vetiver earthy depth, and amber adds a characteristic warmth that holds the composition together as the citrus-herbal top notes dissipate. The musk is quiet, extending the dry-down close to skin.
This is a compact aromatic-woody with a warm amber finish — simple in construction, masculine in posture, and classic in its trajectory. Despite the naming, orange as such doesn't appear in the pyramid; the character is more green-herbaceous than fruity.
Scent twins
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