Secret Woods
Grapefruit and bergamot open with a tart, slightly bitter citrus burst that quickly cedes ground to the spices waiting beneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Smoky55
- Patchouli55
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Saffron
- Styrax
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and bergamot open with a tart, slightly bitter citrus burst that quickly cedes ground to the spices waiting beneath. The opening is brief and works mostly as a bridge.
Saffron, styrax, and nutmeg build the heart into a leathery-resinous middle, the saffron lending its medicinal-honeyed warmth and the styrax adding a smoky balsamic depth. The transition shifts the composition fully from fresh to dark within minutes.
Sandalwood, leather, and patchouli close the arc with a smoky woody-leather dry-down. The leather is the dominant signal, framed by the cocoa-camphor of patchouli and the creaminess of sandalwood. The arc settles into a long, dark, leather-and-resin close that projects strongly through the first hours.
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.
