Eau de Cartier
Yuzu opens Eau de Cartier with a clean citrus accent that reads simultaneously Japanese and French — the yuzu's specific tartness distinguishing it from bergamot, which follows alongside.
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.
- Bergamot50
- Lavender50
- Cedar45
- Musk45
- Patchouli35
By the editors · 2 min readYuzu opens Eau de Cartier with a clean citrus accent that reads simultaneously Japanese and French — the yuzu's specific tartness distinguishing it from bergamot, which follows alongside. The pairing is refined, the opening neither warm nor cold but simply precise.
Violet leaf and lavender in the heart maintain that quality of restraint: violet leaf's raw, slightly bitter green quality, lavender's herbal softness, violet adding a powdery floral dimension without making the composition explicitly feminine. The heart is where Eau de Cartier makes its clearest statement — unisex, unhurried, elegant.
Cedar and patchouli in the base provide quiet structure, patchouli used at a register that adds earthy depth without becoming the composition's focus. A jeweler's fragrance: designed to be appropriate everywhere, unobtrusive in the best sense.
