Alpona
Alpona is a chypre with the citrus dialed loud — orange, lemon, grapefruit, and bergamot stacked together at the top, almost cologne-bright for the first stretch, with a rose flicker keeping it from reading purely hesperidic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Jasmine
- Orange
By the editors · 2 min readAlpona is a chypre with the citrus dialed loud — orange, lemon, grapefruit, and bergamot stacked together at the top, almost cologne-bright for the first stretch, with a rose flicker keeping it from reading purely hesperidic.
Thyme dries the heart out unexpectedly — that medicinal-herbal lift you find in old Mediterranean fougères — and a second pass of orange and jasmine softens the herbal angle without turning floral. The structure is built more around the herbs than the flowers.
The drydown is the classical chypre signature: oakmoss, sandalwood, cedar, patchouli, and a thin myrrh thread, with musk smoothing the edges. It lasts and sits low. A grown-up summer chypre, sun-warmed and dry, with no concession to current taste.
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.
