Silent Rescue
Lemon opens with a bright, almost effervescent sparkle that quickly gains depth through a dry nutmeg overlay, creating a citrus-spice tension rather than simple freshness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Nutmeg
- Cinnamon
- Myrrh
- Frankincense
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLemon opens with a bright, almost effervescent sparkle that quickly gains depth through a dry nutmeg overlay, creating a citrus-spice tension rather than simple freshness. Cinnamon arrives early in the heart, amplifying the nutmeg’s warmth while myrrh and frankincense smolder underneath, turning the composition resinous and softly smoky as the woods begin to push forward. Sandalwood dominates the base, its creamy grain stitched to guaiac’s darker smoke and cedar’s pencil-sharp lift, while clean musk stretches the incense accord so it never cloys. On skin the lemon never fully vanishes; instead it hovers like a citric glow above the embered woods for the first three hours before the dry-down settles into a sandalwood-musk skin veil. Projection stays moderate, projecting an arm’s length for half the wear then collapsing to a woody-resin whisper perfect for cool autumn offices or evening travel.
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.
