Heros
Lemon snaps open with a tart, candied edge that quickly folds into grapefruit’s bittersweet pith.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Citrus85
- Amber60
- Fresh50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Ginger
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLemon snaps open with a tart, candied edge that quickly folds into grapefruit’s bittersweet pith. Ginger lands in the heart, heating the citrus oils and turning them toward a faintly peppery effervescence that tingles for about an hour. Amber arrives early in the dry-down, pouring a smooth, golden glaze over the remaining zest while musk pulls the accord close to the skin, softening any lingering sharpness. The whole structure stays lightweight, shifting from bright splash to fuzzy warmth within three hours. Projection stays polite, a one-arm-length citrus glow ideal for office or gym days. Summer and early fall weather maximizes the opening sparkle; cooler air condenses the ginger-amber cocoon sooner, trimming longevity to a skin-level hum.
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.