Wool
Apple and grapefruit open bright and slightly tart, with the grapefruit giving an almost soapy bitterness that keeps the apple from reading too candied.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Grapefruit
- Lavender
- Basil
- Cedar
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readApple and grapefruit open bright and slightly tart, with the grapefruit giving an almost soapy bitterness that keeps the apple from reading too candied. Mandarin in the general notes adds a softer citrus halo behind the sharper opening.
The heart turns aromatic: lavender's clean herbaceousness paired with basil's anise-tinged green and cedar's dry woodiness. The combination reads fresh and slightly soapy, more cologne than perfume.
Amber underneath warms the finish without going heavy, and musk smooths the transitions. The drydown is a soft, faintly sweet woody-aromatic with the lavender lingering longest. Clean, casual, and well-suited to warm-weather daily wear.
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.
