Orange Affair
Petitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green flash that quickly folds into creamy almond, turning the citrus top into a soft, oily haze.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Almond90
- Nutty60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Almond
- Orange Blossom
- Tonka Bean
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green flash that quickly folds into creamy almond, turning the citrus top into a soft, oily haze. Almond and orange blossom meet in the heart, the nut’s marzipan sweetness tilting the white floral toward powdery marzipan rather than indolic lushness, while a ghost of mandarin keeps a juicy edge. Tonka bean surges early, its warm hay-vanilla coumarin wrapping the almond in a persistent, slightly salty skin-scent cocoon that muffles projection. Musk lands clean and laundry-bright, stretching the tonka’s sweetness into a pale, close-wearing almond crème that stays flat against the body for hours. Quiet sillage and low projection make it office-safe; spring through early fall daysespecially warm, dry days—let the nutty facet bloom without cloying.
Scent twins
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