Acqua Attiva
Acqua Attiva opens with a crisp burst of bergamot and grapefruit, both fresh-cut and slightly bitter, with cardamom threading a quiet spice underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Mossy60
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
- Freesia
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readAcqua Attiva opens with a crisp burst of bergamot and grapefruit, both fresh-cut and slightly bitter, with cardamom threading a quiet spice underneath. The composition reads clean rather than sharp, the citrus sitting lightly on skin without turning soapy.
As it settles, freesia adds a soft floral transparency while oakmoss and vetiver ground the whole thing with an earthy, slightly smoky dryness. The mossy-green base keeps the fragrance from floating away into pure freshness.
Musk ties the elements together at the finish, leaving a close, understated trail. This is a practical, undemanding fragrance — tidy and functional, suited to warm days and informal settings where something light is called for.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
