D Red
Grapefruit opens with a tart, slightly bitter citrus edge that feels more pith than juice, cutting through air rather than sweetening it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Citrus70
- Aromatic60
- Woody50
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Lavender
- Amberwood
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with a tart, slightly bitter citrus edge that feels more pith than juice, cutting through air rather than sweetening it. Lavender arrives quickly, swapping the citrus snap for a cool, slightly stemmy aromatic that smooths the transition into the woody base. Amberwood and sandalalwood fuse into a clean, blond-wood accord laced with a faint mineral sweetness; the grapefruit echo lingers, keeping the woods from turning creamy. On skin the scent stays tight and linear, projecting an arm’s-length freshness for about five hours before relaxing into a faint, laundry-clean wood musk. Bright and unobtrusive, it works best as a daytime casual signatureoffice option in spring through early fall when temperatures sit in the warm-to-hot range.
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.
