Italian Citrus
Italian Citrus opens on bergamot and grapefruit, clean and uncomplicated, with a mildly ozonic freshness that keeps things airy.
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.
- Citrus80
- Mossy70
- Green60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Frankincense
- Oakmoss
- Ambrette
- Oakmoss
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readItalian Citrus opens on bergamot and grapefruit, clean and uncomplicated, with a mildly ozonic freshness that keeps things airy. Violet leaf in the heart introduces a green, slightly watery character — more cut stem than flower — while frankincense adds a transparent resinous lift without turning smoky.
Oakmoss grounds the drydown with a cool, slightly damp earthiness. Ambrette adds a soft musky quality that reads as skin-level rather than synthetic. The overall structure leans toward the classic chypre skeleton: citrus over moss, held together by subtle woods and greenery.
This is a spare, considered composition — citrus-forward with a mossy finish, best suited to warm weather when its freshness has room to breathe.
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.
