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The opening is bright citrus—grapefruit and bergamot—cut with a shadow of earthiness that announces itself immediately.
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.
- Patchouli85
- Citrus80
- Woody75
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Bulgarian Rose
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is bright citrus—grapefruit and bergamot—cut with a shadow of earthiness that announces itself immediately. This isn't fresh fruit alone; patchouli lurks underneath from the start, turning the brightness slightly smoky and deliberate. The effect feels controlled, urban, sharply drawn.
As it settles, praline sweetness arrives alongside rose and spice, but never tips into dessert territory. The sugariness is checked by cinnamon and the persistent patchouli, which keeps everything grounded and slightly austere. The florals remain polite, secondary to the architecture of sweet, bitter, and earth.
The drydown is a soft ambered wood with suede textures, still holding that sweetness-meets-patchouli tension. It's the scent of someone who dresses carefully, walks city streets with intention, and prefers refinement to exuberance. Feminine without being particularly delicate, memorable without shouting.
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.
